Setting the Record Straight

Abstract

IN recent years, questions have been raised about the role of not-for-profit hospitals in providing care to the uninsured and underinsured poor. Traditionally, private hospitals have financed such care largely by charging and collecting more from privately insured patients. This mechanism received relatively little scrutiny until two important trends emerged in the 1980s: an increase in the number of persons without health insurance and increasing price consciousness on the part of both public and private purchasers. The rise in the number of uninsured and underinsured people has increased our nation's dependence on the private sector to finance large increases in . . .

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