Os hospitais filantrópicos americanos: alguma semelhança?

Abaixo trecho de reportagem do The Wall Street Journal apresentando a situação dos hospitais ditos filantrópicos, cada vez mais ricos, mas com impacto nas isenções fiscais.

Nonprofit Hospitals, Once For the Poor, Strike It Rich By John Carreyrou and Barbara Martinez Word Count: 2,530 Nonprofit hospitals, originally set up to serve the poor, have transformed themselves into profit machines. And as the money rolls in, the large tax breaks they receive are drawing fire. Riding gains from investment portfolios and enjoying the pricing power that came from a decade of mergers, many nonprofit hospitals have seen earnings soar in recent years. The combined net income of the 50 largest nonprofit hospitals jumped nearly eight-fold to $4.27 billion between 2001 and 2006, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from the American Hospital Directory. AHD, an information-service company, compiles data that hospitals report ...