The state of Minnesota used to be a high-quality low cost health care oasis. No more. The whole state is captured by a small number of supposedly non-profit, hospital-based health systems that control everything and have driven costs up tremendously. These allegedly non-profit systems are making tens of millions of dollars in profits, have bloated administrative staffs and grotesquely excessive executive compensation. A new report describes in some detail how these hospitals are failing to deliver on the supposed trade-off for tax-exempt status–deliver free care to poor people. A new article describes how these systems sue poor people and badger them to pay debts for care that the hospitals should be delivering free. (KFF Report)
As if Minnesota doesn’t have enough infamy, it turns out that our hospitals are actually among the worst in the country at ripping off the public. Charity care is provided at a third of the national average. My what a great love your neighbor state we are. It is a disgrace, an absolute disgrace, but I guarantee you little to nothing will be done, because the overpaid executives in these hospital systems give lots of money to Walz and Ellison and other Dems. Meanwhile, Minnesota’s poor patients get sued so that hospital executives can get paid millions,
