| > Don’t tax hospitals, but tax pharmaceutical companies? Hospitals, to maintain their nonprofit status, have to provide charitable contributions. One way is when patients apply for payment reduction or discharge because they can not afford to pay. Patients need to apply for this so they have documentation to give the IRS. > Don’t tax pharmaceutical companies, but tax the income of doctors? How often do you ask a doctor to work for free? They still get paid by the hospital. Yes, pharmaceutical companies, which as far as I know are private, also have something like this. This is preventing media coverage and Congress imposing max cap on prices on public assistance programs (prices private insurance will use for leverage) so they can keep charging what they want. > I think the point of the article is that it’s really hard to make these judgments and doing way with the whole system entirely makes the most sense, which seems reasonable to me. The point of this article is to attack the nonprofit competitors to their due paying members. They gloss over many details and as I posted elsewhere; they even defensive of the tax loopholes of their due paying members. |
Oftentimes, physicians are not paid by the hospital at all. They will form consulting groups and work for the consulting group which will have a contract with the hospital, or they'll do something C2C.