Hospital Needs to Learn Charity
About 2 1/2 years ago in the Montalvo area of Ventura, a teenager who was unable to defend himself because of neurological disability was beaten about the head and body by two boys with weighted bats.
When the boy and his mother requested treatment at the emergency room of Ventura Community Memorial Hospital, the hospital refused to treat the boy on the grounds that the mother was unable to pay $100 up front. Consequently, the mother ended up taking the injured and traumatized boy to St. John’s Hospital in Oxnard.
Does this sound like a “nonprofit corporation” to you?
It is time to rewrite the tax code to greatly restrict the ability of the numerous falsely declared not-for-profit corporations to evade their fair share of the tax burden by declaring themselves to the Internal Revenue Service to be benevolent corporations operating charitably for the public good.
SUZANNE GORENFELD
Ventura
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