Franchises providing other types of care officially can work for-profit, but many of them still do not have profit-making as their ultimate or only goal.
Franchises providing hospital care, in-patient mental health care and in-patient long-term care for the disabled, youth and elderly are prohibited from working for-profit under Dutch law.
And because BlaBlaCar's drivers merely cover their expenses rather than working for profit, they have nothing to fear from the taxman either.
But unlike their American equivalents, which work for profit (and within a defined legal structure), most of these outfits struggle with funding and rely on a few untrained volunteers.
Bus companies providing patient transport services; treatment centres that work for profit; social enterprise partnerships; community interest cooperatives and the rest should not be allowed to plaster the NHS logo all over their literature, buildings and vehicles.
"Indian Railways is kind of schizophrenic in that the machinery cannot decide whether it is working for profit or to please the public," said a railways bureaucrat who did not want to be named.
The individual, in our society, works for profit; but the social purpose of his work lies in the consumption of what he produces.
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Private sector healthcare providers are generally medically trained providers working for profit and located outside the government health system.
