How Nonprofit Hospitals Put Profits Over Patients

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Nonprofit hospitals — which make up around half of hospitals in the United States — were founded to help the poor. But a Times investigation has revealed that many have deviated from those charitable roots, behaving like for-profit companies, sometimes to the detriment of the health of patients. Guest: Jessica Silver-Greenberg, an investigative business reporter for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Taverny-C, and this is The Daily.
0:07.0	Today, nonprofit hospitals were founded to help the poor.
0:17.6	But a Times investigation has found that many are abandoning those patients in pursuit
0:23.2	of profits.
0:25.4	My colleague, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, on what that investigation found.
0:32.4	It's Wednesday, January 25th.
0:41.4	So, Jessica, tell me about this reporting you've been doing on hospitals and this patient
0:48.7	you met, Alexandra Nyefors.
0:51.4	Okay, so Alexandra Nyefors is a woman in her 60s and she lives in Everett, Washington,
0:58.2	which is about 30 miles away from Seattle.
1:02.4	Hello.
1:03.4	Hi, Alexandra.
1:05.4	Hi there.
1:06.4	Hi.
1:07.4	I spent a fair amount of time talking to her over the course of many months last year,
1:13.4	because she had this truly harrowing medical emergency.
1:18.4	In October of 2021, she is starting to feel pretty crummy.
1:25.2	I've had some sort of unidentifiable digestive system infection.
1:32.2	She was having a lot of stomach pain.
1:35.0	She was feeling dizzy.
1:36.5	I know I couldn't get dressed and I couldn't stand up.
1:40.9	And eventually, Alexandra is getting so sick that her roommate is really worried and
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