The average hospital barely scrapes by. Some private hospitals, like the one MO worked at and bused away the poor made fantastic profit. But it's illegal unless you're married to a senator.
So if the fancy hospitals took up their fair share of poor it would help and all could lower the costs. Insurance pays malpractice but hospitals pay malpractice insurance. . On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > The number of non-payers at the hospital where I had my surgery is > extremely low, and insurance companies pay malpractice settlements. > > Yet they charged me 15 dollars for an aspirin, and they paid a tidy > shareholder profit so they are much more than breaking even. > > Still can't figure out those of you on the right are ok with corporate > gouging, but choke on helping the poor. Can you explain it? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:336723 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
