Anyone have any good data on the profitability of hospitals? I've always gotten the feeling that they are generally not making a whole lot of money, but I don'

Anyone have any good data on the profitability of hospitals? I've always gotten the feeling that they are generally not making a whole lot of money, but I don't have much data to back it up. Is this kind of data even public? You can construct a narrative for a bunch of different situations for Hospitals: * High ER costs in order to offset the large number of people who just can't pay, but need to be treated anyways. * High costs in order to deal with all the regulatory requirements on Hospitals (it seems everything is regulated in a hospital, down to the kind of TP in the bathrooms). * High costs because hospitals have local monopolies and can screw patients. * etc. I don't have enough data to figure out which one of these is the "right" version of the facts. Does anyone else?