It's time to stop pretending hospitals are "nonprofits"

These are massive businesses - frequently chains - that pay executives richly and depend on huge government spending and subsidies to survive. - Alex Berenson

The United States now spends over $2 million every year for an average hospital bed — $1.6 trillion in all.

• That’s one key reason the American medical system has fewer beds per capita than many other rich countries. We just cannot afford more beds.

Why do American hospitals cost so much? 

• Heavy administrative spending, 
• patient lawsuits, 
• relentless marketing and advertising, 
• high labor costs, 
• regular investment in new imaging systems (sometimes necessary, sometimes not), 
• construction of shiny new buildings to chase elective surgery patients, 
• and, oh yeah, seven- and eight-figure executive salaries — which have recently exploded...