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🧵THREAD: Are nonprofit hospitals really doing more charity care than for-profits in Texas? Even lawmakers are asking. Here’s what went down in a recent hearing—and what the data shows. 👇
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Thanks to @TomOliverson passing HB 2002 in Texas, patients are able to apply cash payment for a service to their deductible.
Strong advocates like:
@josharchambault
@taliff5
@CharlesTXPolicy
@InstituteCicero
@CSexton25
Should also be commended for their multi-state work
Strong advocates like:
@josharchambault
@taliff5
@CharlesTXPolicy
@InstituteCicero
@CSexton25
Should also be commended for their multi-state work
Texas and Tennessee and I believe Indiana and two other states as well , have laws that require insurers to apply cash pay to deductibles when you present them with the billsView quoted post on X
Agree
I went off on the healthcare system. Let me know if you agree or disagreeView quoted post on X
Finally
.@StephenM to Memphis Police: "The idea that there is a square inch of block in this city where a citizen doesn't feel safe is unacceptable. This is Memphis. This is the United States of America — and all that bullshit is DONE. It's over. It's finished." 🔥View quoted post on X
Nonprofit hospitals do provide more charity care in Texas, but barely, and the difference is marginal, despite the huge tax breaks they receive.
For-profit hospitals pay property, income, and sales tax. Nonprofits do not. Yet, you would expect NP hospitals to provide more charity care due to their tax exempt status.
NP hospitals enjoy the benefits of their tax exempt status while not providing a proportional amount of community benefit through charity care in Texas when compared to FP hospitals.
#txlege
For-profit hospitals pay property, income, and sales tax. Nonprofits do not. Yet, you would expect NP hospitals to provide more charity care due to their tax exempt status.
NP hospitals enjoy the benefits of their tax exempt status while not providing a proportional amount of community benefit through charity care in Texas when compared to FP hospitals.
#txlege
Nonprofit hospitals were meant to serve the poor — but today they give a smaller percentage of charity care than for-profit hospitals. At the same time they're costing taxpayers $37B a year.
Half of that would go to state and local budgets that are already getting squeezed. It’s time to take a hard look at how hospitals qualify for these generous tax breaks.
H/t @GeBaiDC
forbes.com/sites/gebai/20…View quoted post on X
