Healthcare Without Profit
Healthcare systems worldwide face a fundamental tension between profit maximization and healing. In the United States, market-driven healthcare has created systemic inequities, operational inefficiencies, and what recent scholarship identifies as physician moral injury—the psychological distress experienced when economic pressures compromise ethical medical practice.
This article examines what healthcare might look like without profit motivation and explores how such transformation aligns with embodied theological understandings of healing as covenant, justice, and divine presence.
We conducted comparative analysis of international healthcare models, integrated findings from health economics literature, and synthesized theological scholarship from Jewish mystical and ethical traditions. The analysis draws extensively from contemporary work on physician moral injury, pharmaceutical industry practices, and institutional coercion in medical settings.