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"Prescription for Profits"
The Wall Street Journal examined whether nonprofit hospitals, which account for the majority of hospitals in the U.S., deserve the billions of dollars in annual tax exemptions they receive. The Journal's series revealed that, far from struggling financially, many nonprofit hospitals have become profit machines while shirking their charitable missions. Among the series' findings: Some pay tens of thousands of dollars upfront' others have closed facilities in poor inner cities and built new ones in affluent suburbs; and one hospital put patients' lives at risk to increase its lucrative liver-transplant business.
Tags: charitable causes; medical service; patient care; hospital taxes; nonprofit hospitals; Amish; Mennonites
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Bad Seeds
Two young Amish men from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania were charged with selling cocaine. Most Amish are reluctant to speak with reporters, but some, without giving their names, told the reporter of concerns within the community, including increasing drug use by Amish youth.
Tags: Religion
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The series uncovered a fractured but widespread industry of medical hucksters preying on a vulnerable population. Plain people -- Amish, conservative Mennonites and Hutterites -- spend untold amounts on bogus medicine and suffer avoidable pain and premature death. (October 20 - 23, 1996)