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September 6th, 2009 11: 20 am ET ox News is the journalistic result when profit-motive is the motivator rather than journalistic integrity.
Obama did not order Van Jones' resignation, adviser says 2009
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The profit-motive in the health insurance industry benefits only the health insurance industry, not the consumer.
Landrieu the latest senator to face TV pressure over public option 2009
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As crass as the profit-motive can be at times, it's important to keep in mind that not all profit-motives are created equal.
Frankie Sturm: Foreign Policy in the Digital Age: It's a Mixed Bag, but it's a Bag We've Got to Open 2010
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There's no question that the primary profit-motive biases data.
Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD: Why Don't Patients Take Their Meds? 2010
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Such a practice poses inherent conflicts of interest: brokers are bound by an obligation to seek the best prices for their clients 'orders, but, in trading against those orders, firms also have a potential profit-motive to disadvantage their clients.
Sen. Ted Kaufman: We Need a Banking System That is "Too Safe to Fail" 2010
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As crass as the profit-motive can be at times, it's important to keep in mind that not all profit-motives are created equal.
Frankie Sturm: Foreign Policy in the Digital Age: It's a Mixed Bag, but it's a Bag We've Got to Open 2010
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Although President Obama, with his penchant for falsely characterizing any opposing opinion, may declare that "We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world by rewarding greed and recklessness," the truth is that this is the essence of how we became the most prosperous country in the world (although the correct characterization is that we've rewarded the profit-motive and prudent risk-taking, and have punished recklessness).
The President Is All 2010
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And this is not some political axe-grinding on my part, it's just what I see as the sadly reliable outcome once you've embraced a realism about the way in which the profit-motive directs the behavior of for-profit (political) media providers in largely predictable ways.
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How does one believe real change is going to trickle down from the top when the man at the top is intentionally making it difficult for Americans to get excited about real health care reform because he thinks he should give credence to private, corporate, and special interests who fear a single-payer health care system that would take the greed or profit-motive out of health care?
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How does one believe real change is going to trickle down from the top when the man at the top is intentionally making it difficult for Americans to get excited about real health care reform because he thinks he should give credence to private, corporate, and special interests who fear a single-payer health care system that would take the greed or profit-motive out of health care?
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