Hardball on Disproportionate Share Might Equal State Expanded Medicaid

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New Orleans    When the archly conservative National Journal asks whether the Obama Administration is preparing to play hardball with Florida over $1 billion in Medicaid funding that is set to expire later this year for “disproportionate share,” the heart quickens as people, meaning most rational and sentient beings, committed to better health care for all, …

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More Handles Emerging to Force Accountability for Nonprofit Hospitals

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New Orleans      No matter what the Supreme Court decides this summer, there is little question that to secure more health care protection for lower income families, particularly in the resister-states that continue to refuse to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, we are going to have to push so-called nonprofit, tax exempt hospitals …

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Nonprofit Hospitals Are Going to Have to Prove They are Not Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing

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Little Rock     For many top executives and CEO’s it easy to imagine that running a big urban nonprofit hospital has been a sweet gig.  Looking at some of the 990’s that all nonprofits submit to the IRS annually, salaries in the millions are not unusual at some of these big hospitals and many make millions …

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