It's depressing to see how much hospital finances depend on lucrative elective surgeries and procedures. Joint replacements, for instance, are huge profit centers. Hospitals make a lot less treating #COVID19 patients, even the ones in ICUs, than on elective surgery.https://twitter.com/sarahkliff/status/1261298221449719809 …
Most hospitals in the US are not-for-profit, but they are expected to function like a business and at the very least not lose money.
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Of course, that means that how not-for-profit hospitals and for-profit hospitals operate is often indistinguishable.
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