[dh2022]

Nit: when anyone dies in a hospital the money-makers are the health providers, not the drug-makers. Health providers (think “non-profit” hospitals and medical centers, as well as clinics) have the biggest operating profit margin and return on equity in this business: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/insurance-companies-arent-the-...

[cosmicgadget]

Where does your link say that?

[dh2022]

Sorry maybe the link I pasted is pay-walled and probably the content is incomplete. Here is a link which is not paywalled https://archive.is/bRy5l

[cosmicgadget]

Thank you. And there is a WSJ article linked that talks about nonprofit hospitals having high executive comp and funding new projects. It does also say:

> To be sure, some nonprofit hospitals, particularly ones in inner cities that handle large numbers of uninsured patients, remain under financial strain and are struggling to keep their doors open.

And it is also worth mentioning that in some (many?) systems, 'providers' refers to physicians who aren't part of the hospital system in which they work. So the doctors can be doing just fine while the hospital is barely scraping by.