Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P
by shirederby on Saturday August 06, 2011 @11:11PM
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I was curious about this, so I searched around a bit.
This is the most recent I found -- a median of 3.1 percent: http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/08/19/us-hospitals-usa-i...
Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P
by ericd on Sunday August 07, 2011 @03:24AM
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Interesting. I wonder how much of their operating expense is due to administrator salaries. A breakdown of expenses throughout hospitals and the health system would be really fascinating to see, and could probably shed light on potential solutions.
Maybe they can pull that off by paying themselves all the profits, but there's no way that I buy that hospitals have thinner margins than grocery stores before that. Hospital administrators are very well off on average. Their fees are way too large to be running so close to the wire, given their expenses.