The government is spending $24.6 billion every year on tax breaks for approximately 2,100 nonprofit hospitals in the United States. But in return, these nonprofit hospitals are only spending 3% of their budgets on charity care. Seventy-one percent of these nonprofit hospitals charge uninsured patients more than insured patients for the exact same services, 66% of nonprofits neglect to tell patients when they are eligible for charity, and 17% aggressively collect debt from uninsured patients by reporting them to creditors, filing lawsuits against them, or putting liens on their property.
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