Because under capitalism labor is the commodity of commodities, health care holds a unique position in the extraction of surplus value. At the same time, that doesn't keep capitalist managers from trying to take credit for positive socially cooperative endeavors. The present stage of permanent restructuring is revealing that there is no longer any middle ground or compromise with the logic of restructuring. You either take the side of capital, HMO executives, and the labor bureaucracy or the side of doctors, nurses and other workers fighting over the meaning of their concrete human labor. In order to create our humanity, basic human cooperation and free association has to determine our priorities.
Health care is a service centered on the well being of the human being.
De-masking the production process in health care can lead to demasking it in all areas of life. An unraveling of the present mind-forged view of the production process would spell the disintegration of the neatly ordered process of commodity production's extraction of surplus labor in health care to generate profits. It is high time to stop allowing the dictates of capital in any form to determine the nature and direction of our fundamental drive towards freely associated social cooperation. Not only that, we must stop seeing through the distorting prism of capital to construct social labor and social production. However, only full social cooperation that cuts across all professional boundaries and classifications can lift the false sense of reality that animates capitalism in which we all participate.