Comment by geofft

> What if every hospital had an overt political stance and forced doctors to make diagnoses based on those politics?

At least in the US, this is standard. Try getting your local Catholic hospital to deal with complications with your IUD and this isn't a "what if." There are plenty of stories of people who discover that their primary care network has an avowed ideological stance on certain procedures and they need to switch doctors and perhaps go out of network for full care.

> What if the hospitals had a financial incentive to sensationalise public health?

Don't they? There is no shortage of for-profit hospitals, and thanks to insurance, Medicaid, etc., they can often increase profit at no cost to the patient by just seeing the patient more and treating them kn more ways that might be strictly speaking unnecessary.

> What if independent doctors only got into medicine in the first place to make decisions based on their own partisan politics?

Isn't this approximately the backstory of Planned Parenthood?

Basically, everyone has an ideology, a reason to do what they do. Sometimes it's based on their view of the world and a desire to make it better in some way. Sometimes it's profit. Neither of these is necessary nefarious.