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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (239579)

12/8/2013 11:55:18 AM

From: Wharf Rat

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"hospitals have to make a profit in our capitalistic design. "

Not that Medicare E wouldn't be better, but if hospitals had to make profits, we wouldn't have non and not for-profits.

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Total Number of All U.S. Registered * Hospitals	5,724
Number of U.S. Community ** Hospitals	4,973
Number of Nongovernment Not-for-Profit Community Hospitals	2,903
Number of Investor-Owned (For-Profit) Community Hospitals	1,025
Number of State and Local Government Community Hospitals	1,045
Number of Federal Government Hospitals	208
Number of Nonfederal Psychiatric Hospitals	421
Number of Nonfederal Long Term Care Hospitals	112
Number of Hospital Units of Institutions (Prison Hospitals, College Infirmaries, Etc.)

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