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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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When Worlds Collide
The Des Moines Register tells the story of an accident that caused a Mennonite family to lose a child and sustain injuries and of a small-town Iowa man who crashed into their horse and buggy with his car one morning.
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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)
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Elkhart (Ind.) Truth reports on John Howard Yoder, a Mennonite minister who teaches at Notre Dame and who is regarded as one of the century's most prominent theologians; Yoder's ministerial credentials were suspended over allegations of sexual harassment; an unpublished essay by Yoder confirmed victims' contentions that Yoder had constructed a biblical and ethical framework for his misconduct, June 29 and July 12 - 16, 1992.
Tags: IN Price