But it is not a necessary part of a for-profit system, and has been discontinued.
With health care currently a hot-button political issue, Dr. Dave sees this local, not-for-profit health system as a model for how national health care in America could work.
Mercy Health, a not-for-profit health system in Cincinnati, Ohio that owns six hospitals, was able to reduce its 30-day readmission rate to 14.5% as of November, from 16.9% in 2011, with a Care Transitions program that assigns nurses to high-risk patients to keep them out of the hospital.
With the world economy and stock markets working against them, we saw great results over several years from the merger of two centuries-old tobacco companies in Europe (Altadis), an Indian soap-and-cooking-oils maker that has become of the world's leading software services providers (Wipro) and a for-profit school system that owns an incredibly successful dot.com (Apollo Group).
Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational organization that produces Sesame Street, is a completely separate company from the non-profit Public Broadcasting System (PBS).
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Especially in our for-profit health care system, each earning report has to best the last for the stock to go up in value.
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But what I do know for sure is that by subsidizing the marriage of Bear Stearns and JP Morgan, the government has removed some of the loss from the profit and loss system.
Railtrack cannot be blamed for seeking to profit from such a system, but it can be faulted for neglecting its regulatory obligation to develop the network.
The group said in a press release from earlier that the current profit-based taxation system works as opposed to a more risky mineral value-based taxation system that Marois supports.
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Our competitors include CareGroup, a system of five regional hospitals, and a new for-profit chain called the Steward Health Care System.
At its heart, a co-op is a non-profit, member-run system for providing insurance plans.
She donated to help set up a library--and promptly began to design several business operations, including an accounting system and the profit-sharing plan.
The group also operates on a system of autonomous profit centers.
The latest alternative would be a system of non-profit health insurance cooperatives modeled after rural agriculture co-ops.
The city expects the system to turn a profit, to be split between the city and the operator.
Kickstarter, which uses the Amazon Payments system, makes a profit by taking a small percentage of the funds donated to each project.
At the center of the antispam effort is a small Redwood City, Calif. not-for-profit organization called Mail Abuse Prevention System or MAPS (spam spelled backwards).
With new capital rules looming, and China's banking system grappling with slowing profit growth and the potential for more bad loans, the ICBC sale appeared inevitable, they said.
And not all of them came out profitable because of a methodology that inflates operating margin. (The median margin was negative 0.27%.) A given local hospital may have good operations, but not feel profitable because almost every cent of its profit is sent to their parent system for one thing or another.
Thank goodness, Jacksonville has a well organized system through another non-profit, We Care.
The system could be run for profit by the private sector, with the government, in effect, acting only as an insurer of last resort.
The company is working with the not-for-profit organisation to launch a new operating system based on the Firefox internet browser that Mozilla owns.
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The government tries to adjust its payments based on the perceived patient risk, but the insurance industry has figured out a way to game that system and extract even more profit by focusing on the least costly patients for a given medical condition, one recent academic study found.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial had predicted Sallie Mae would post a profit of 72 cents per share under this system, so the miss was substantial.
But as Milton Friedman liked to point out, our economic system isn't just based on profit.
Hoping to save yearly operating costs by combining utilities, the city shifted control of its water and sewer system to a not-for-profit trust that also runs the local natural gas.
The non-profit trade association which has developed an efficient workable system by which families are able to harvest the fruit and earn an income that can pay for healthcare, education and everyday necessities.
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His not-for-profit organization, Carbon Manna Unlimited, has developed a system of direct micro-payments to rural people who offset their carbon production through the use of high-efficiency stoves.
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