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Will all profit-centered websites stop taking user-generated content for fear that they too will be sued?
Yashar Hedayat: In This Case, Proud to Be a "Scab" Yashar Hedayat 2011
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There is nothing so sacred about having a media system driven by advertising and the bottom line, but in the US the conventional wisdom is that profit-centered media are as American as apple pie, the Fourth of July and the Founding Fathers.
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Our economy must become more person-centered than property - and profit-centered.
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Kuttner and others report that U.S. primary care infrastructure suffers the greatest attrition under profit-centered health care.
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How do we reform this profit-centered industry and remake it into a patient-centered one?
Barbara Coombs Lee: Healthcare Reform and the Price of Torture 2009
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"Mass civil disobedience" was essential for "active, nonviolent resistance to the evils of the modern system … Our economy must become more person-centered than property-centered and profit-centered."
An Unfinished Dream 2009
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We need to fix a bunch of things beyond predatory, uncompetitive, profit-centered health insurance companies.
William Fisher: A Simpleton Tries to Understand the Health Care Debate 2009
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In respect to brevity, I close with the hope that America will soon realize that profit-centered managed care is not the answer to our woefully inadequate health care system and that it only allows this industry to take money out of an overstressed system at the expense of patients 'health and of providers' sanity.
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Given the profit-centered motivations of TV networks and others in the media industries, centrally among them demands and pressures for higher ratings, do you have any thoughts about how media organizations can responsibly cover school shootings?
Jackson Katz: Conversation with Philosopher on School Shootings 2008
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No wonder health care reform has degenerated into a circular debate about "market-driven" solutions, with policy driven by profit-centered health insurances and the pharmaceutical lobby.
Michele Swenson: Democrats Must Challenge Republican Rhetoric, Issues Framing 2008
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