The Nation - News from March 24, 1986

For-profit hospitals are a “growing danger to our health care system” that fail to measure up to the standards of their nonprofit brethren, the National Council of Senior Citizens charged. A council report accused investor-owned hospitals of charging more money but providing inferior care and shortchanging the public by failing to serve the poor or contribute to medical education and research. “Profit maximizing should not be the governing factor controlling the scope and availability of essential human services such as health care,” the council said.