Quote:What kind of public system is paying bonuses with surplus money? I would expect them in jail. Or are you talking about half baked nationalisation where you just give government money to private firms?


I'll tell you where a lot private health money ends up. Dividends to people like me (I'm a shareholder in a private health firm) not In lowering premiums for its customers.

 

I don't have a problem with it, people that do a good job should get more money but here's some examples.

 

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local...ge/277136/

 

Another article explaining why Non-profit hospitals are the most profitable hospitals. 

 

http://www.arbiternews.com/2014/04/08/wh...in-the-us/

 

<p style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:'Open Sans';font-size:15px;">"The requirement that nonprofits reinvest in facilities and expand services gives rise to huge hospital systems that virtually dominate host cities and become the area’s largest employer, with some hospitals bringing in more revenue than what the host city collects in taxes and fees.

<p style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:'Open Sans';font-size:15px;">Another way for nonprofits to spend their profits is compensation, with top administrator salaries in the millions of dollars. For example, in 2010 the combined compensation of the top executives at the 25 most profitable non-profit hospitals in the country totaled $59 million, according to Becker’s Hospital Review"

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