Admission policies between for profit and nonprofit organizations differ significantly by the patients’ ability to pay for care which directly relates access care. The article Ethical Issues in For-Profit Health Care by Brock and Buchanan states “ For-profit health care institutions are said to (1) exacerbate the problem of access to health care, (2) constitute unfair competition against nonprofit institutions, (3) treat health care as a commodity rather than a right, (4) include incentives and organizational controls that adversely affect the physician-patient relationship, creating conflicts of interest that can diminish the quality of care and erode the patient's trust in his physician and the public's trust in the medical profession, (5)
