Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/280860 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Publisher: 
Promoting Economic Pluralism, s.l.
Abstract: 
FROM THE ARTICLE: At the end of November 2023, the New York Times published an editorial: Why Are Nonprofit Hospitals Focused More on Dollars Than Patients? It is certainly a valid question. Most people might assume that not-for-profit (NFP) organisations focus on providing a public benefit rather than profit. At most, common wisdom suggests that any income derived from providing a service should be reinvested into expanding or improving the service. There is no obvious reason why a NFP should accumulate large profits over years. Yet in the NFP world of large US hospitals, profit, rather than public purpose, seems to have become the guiding light.
Subjects: 
differential accumulation
hospitals
not-for-profit
profit
United States
JEL: 
P
P1
L3
L33
I1
I11
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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