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Public Safety Net Hospitals... Hidden Subsidy They Provide to Other Area Hospitals.
Public Safety Net Hospitals are in large cities and are funded by local taxes to care care of local people... even if they are uninsured.
Examples of Public Safety Net Hospitals include Bellevue Hospital in New York City, Jackson Memorial in Miami, Grady Memorial in Atlanta and Ben Taub Hospital in Houston.
The new book "The People's Hospital" by Dr. Ricardo Nuila is an excellent overview of the wonderful care that Ben Taub Hospital provides for the people of Houston and the surrounding Harris County.
56% of Ben Taub's patients are uninsured and 1 in 5 of all Houston area hospital stays for the uninsured occur at Ben Taub.
Ben Taub has a $1.9B annual budget, of which approximately 46% comes from local taxes.
The $875M in taxes that local residents pay to fund Ben Taub and Harris Health subsidizes the local Not-for-Profit and For-Profit hospitals in that these do not need to take care of the uninsured Houstonians that Ben Taub does.
As an executive at Ben Taub says in the book, "If we [Ben Taub] go, they [the other hospitals in Houston] go."
Sources:
'The People's Hospital' by Dr. Ricardo Nuila
List of Public Safety Net Hospitals: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
www.harrishealth.org/SiteColl...
www.harrishealth.org/about-us...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB....
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