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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 2680989" data-attributes="member: 10913">You reminded me of a "Yes, Minister" episdoe I saw not long ago. It was about a hospital that was working at prime beeurocratic efficiency, all its personnel busy, its equipment in perfect maintainance, its work accidents ratio nill, and so on. Of course, it had no patients in it...Non-profit hostpitals, in my experience, try to make their buissness aspects unitrusive and limit them. They have budgets for taking care of people that can't pay for their treatment, for example, and policies for not turning down critically injured people because they can't pay, and they don't try to increase revenue by using their status to sponsor affiliated brands or push their own consortium's medicine, and so on.They are also not at all ashamed to solicit and accept donations, indeed basing a lot of their monatery finances on donations (from funds, the state, and individuals). [In later years buissness elements are becoming more prevelant and obtrusive, which causes a lot of resentment and accusations of impropriatry, bribary, and so on.]At least, that's how things work in my country.And yes, the hospitals are constantly in financial need (so you wouldn't want to own one). I do believe one even went "bankrupt" a few years back but was "saved" by the state at the last minute [IIRC]. And being treated in one is often inferior to being treated in a for-prdfit hospital - if you can afford one. But neither of these are their goals, and in their non-profit goal (healing the multitudes) they are far better than the few for-profit hospitals and wards we have. (I'm not saying they are perfect, or even good - just better.)All of this is of course tangential to the original post, and Morrus is not running a charity.</blockquote>

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