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Sen. Grassley Keeps Pressure on Non-Profit Hospitals

Posted on September 05, 2008

Sen. Chuck Grassley is pounding on two non-profit hospitals demanding to know whether they restrict the care they give patients based on their ability to pay.As ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, the Iowa senator has been bearing down on hospital tax breaks worth millions of dollars, saying he is concerned that non-profits are losing sight of the public service that comes with tax-exempt status. One of Grassley s missives went to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, subject of a front-page Wall Street Journal story in April that infuriated Grassley. The story described the ...

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