AL_DA_GREAT
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Who owns the hospitals in the USA? Do they make profit or are they non profit?
Who owns American hospitals?
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Yup its all of the above. Some are owned by religions, universities, large conglomerates, local ( city or county) and state governments.
Most hospitals are privately owned. The choice of for-profit or non-profit is a tax decision. One problem with non-profit status is they can't come after people who don't pay the bill. The non-profit hospital I worked at got around this by having a finance company in the admissions office. if you didn't have good enough insurance, they made you sign an agreement with the finance company, then if you defaulted to the finance company it could sue you into the poor house.
There are many many different types of hospitals....
A: Government.
County (local government), Public (City, State, County);
B: Privately owned
Investor-owned (profit is distributed among shareholders), Not-For-Profit (owned privately, not taxed, run by a board of trustees, any profits are redirected into the hospital), Private (run by a corporation for corporate employees)
C: Federal Government
Military, Veteran's
Generally, a University hospital is A, a hospital affiliated with a church is B (such as the hospital I was born in, Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio)
edit: regardless of a hospital being publicly-funded, they still bill you (or your insurance), though quite a bit less than a for-profit hospital.
A: Government.
County (local government), Public (City, State, County);
B: Privately owned
Investor-owned (profit is distributed among shareholders), Not-For-Profit (owned privately, not taxed, run by a board of trustees, any profits are redirected into the hospital), Private (run by a corporation for corporate employees)
C: Federal Government
Military, Veteran's
Generally, a University hospital is A, a hospital affiliated with a church is B (such as the hospital I was born in, Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio)
edit: regardless of a hospital being publicly-funded, they still bill you (or your insurance), though quite a bit less than a for-profit hospital.
Elta
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The one I was born in (and always end up in it when I brake something) Is owned by the State University, sometimes they ask for money from the city when they are in debt, (a good 50 million every year ..... not much when you consider the fact that there are 2 million people here and they always send people with no insurance there + any of the 18 million tourist who get injured with no insurance) and they always get it.
The newest one in town is built way out in the suburbs and was built as very low profit investment by a billionaire (he is only expecting 0.05% return on his investment every year for 20 years ..... a nice thing to do compared to these other hospitals)
The newest one in town is built way out in the suburbs and was built as very low profit investment by a billionaire (he is only expecting 0.05% return on his investment every year for 20 years ..... a nice thing to do compared to these other hospitals)
