Not-for-profit hospitals are no more accessible to the medi
cally indigent and uninsured than are for-profits.
- Both types of hospital serve a full range of patients, neither "skimming the cream" nor providing a disproportionate share of services to the underinsured.
- Not-for-profit hospitals emphasize short-term operational results, investing less than do for-profits in capital improve ments to provide for the long-term needs of the communities they serve.
- Not-for-profits, unlike for-profit hospitals, operate to maxi
mize physician benefit.
- Not-for-profit hospitals are less efficient than for-profit hospitals.
- For-profit and not-for-profit hospitals offer equivalent scopes of service.
- For-profit hospitals are as involved as not-for-profits in professional education and provide an equivalent, if not higher, quality of care.