My experience (SE Michigan) is that a large "non-profit" hospital can be every bit as horrible as a for-profit one. There ain't no "be nice" requirement in the

My experience (SE Michigan) is that a large "non-profit" hospital can be every bit as horrible as a for-profit one. There ain't no "be nice" requirement in the legal definition of nonprofit. And once you're talking billions of dollars, with big-ego executives and income streams that are independent of the org's actual do-good cred...yeah. Things get very feudal.