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For-profit hospitals, maybe, but what about the non-profit ones?

• moate 7y ago
  "non-profit" doesn't mean "doesn't make money" its just rules on how you have to spend that money. There's nothing saying a non-profit can't raise prices of service and then expand the hospital to buy a new wing, or better equipment or hire more doctors. They need the money to provide their services.
  • vonmoltke 7y ago
    I understand that, but there is a limited amount of that which can be done before it becomes spending for spending's sake, which is pointless. Also "expand the hospital to buy a new wing, or better equipment or hire more doctors" sounds like exactly what they should be doing, because it means they can service more people at a higher standard of care (which is the reason they exist in the first place).