Union: Hospital tax breaks lopsided

Union: Hospital tax breaks lopsided: "Union: Hospital tax breaks lopsided
Report says nonprofits get 4 times their charity-care spending
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Sarah Treffinger
Plain Dealer Reporter
Three weeks after the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee asked 10 nonprofit hospitals nationwide, including the Cleveland Clinic, to account for their charitable activities, Ohio's health care union is releasing a report about the tax breaks such hospitals receive.
The report, developed by Care for Ohio, a project of the Service Employees International Union District 1199, estimated the value of Ohio nonprofit hospitals' tax benefits in 2003 was $898 million - more than four times the $219 million they spent on uncompensated care. "