This was shocking:
"How nonprofit hospitals puts profit over patients" - NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/podcasts/the-daily/nonprofit-hospitals-investigation.html?smid=url-share
- More than half of nation's 5,000 hospitals are "non-profit" which gets $BNs in tax breaks
still:
- Providence in WA, for example, has been using network-wide scheme to pressure even low-income patients (who qualify for free care) to pay (and used debt collectors on them)
Fuller story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/business/nonprofit-hospitals-poor-patients.html?smid=url-share