> The median operating margins for hospitals is around 0% or some times negative. Injecting more costs into the system is only going to push prices further upward.
Removing costs from the system will only increase profits, so why pretend that increasing costs will necessarily increase prices rather than decreasing profits?
(And before anyone plays the 'nonprofit' card, a nonprofit is only nonprofit in the sense that its net income must be zero. The owners and administrators of a nonprofit can most certainly profit by it.)
Removing costs from the system will only increase profits, so why pretend that increasing costs will necessarily increase prices rather than decreasing profits?
(And before anyone plays the 'nonprofit' card, a nonprofit is only nonprofit in the sense that its net income must be zero. The owners and administrators of a nonprofit can most certainly profit by it.)