Quality of Care

In an ideal health care system, all patients would receive equal, affordable, and sensible quality of care. Certainly not all systems are ideal, and many would argue the United States' health care system isn't either. But it definitely gets complicated when one tries to define an appropriate way to ascertain quality of care. Sure you can measure the number of successful cardiopulmonary surgeries or the number of people who recover from various infectious diseases once administered medical care, but I think it becomes difficult to really grasp the bigger picture about the quality of health care as a whole.
Health care can be a rather lucrative business for medical executives who wish to exploit patients for unnecessary, expensive treatments that do not improve the health status of an individual. For instance, patients who are almost certainly going to die may be given pointless medications for money making purposes. This sort of reckless and careless decision needs to be closely monitored and reprimanded. In a decent health care system, no one's life should be subject to manipulation and profit.
The quality of care has really seemed to be polarized where certain hospitals and clinics provide quality that is second to none, whereas others provide care that is substandard and often unfair. Not having health insurance in many situations is the deciding factor between good and poor quality of care, and certainly this needs to be addressed. I think there is definitely a lot of room for improvement, and one place we might start is by ensuring that the health care that is administered is more equal and certainly not profit-centric.