Samhain
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Re: Enrollment In Obamacare's Federal Exchange, So Far, May Only Be In 'Single Digits
Yeah, its a Catholic non-profit hospital, so its a charity.
I don't doubt it, but the reason a hospital provides $143 million of free care isn't really charity. They get people in that they have to treat that have no way to pay. The hospital could try collecting the debts, and they do sometimes. But when you have patients that realistically could never pay their bill it may make more sense for the hospital to forget about collecting it and write it off. It looks better for the hospital to give away care than to try to garnish wages from minimum wage workers or extract money from the unemployed, after all. Ultimately the costs of treatment get paid by charging higher prices to others.
Yeah, its a Catholic non-profit hospital, so its a charity.