GOP Fails To Pressure Non-Profit Hospitals On Pricing

Despite Republicans’ boasts about closing tax loopholes, there’s one sector that the sweeping tax reform bill mostly leaves alone. This is the tax-exempt hospital sector, which enjoys billions of dollars in tax breaks even as big hospitals raise prices and perform less free care. Mayo Clinic, for instance, a nonprofit health system, cleared more than $1 billion in profit between 2015 and 2016.