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This week on "The State of Ohio": State lawmakers consider what they can do in the wake of the horrible and yet miraculous escape story out of Cleveland involving three women held prisoner in a house for a decade. New data shows more than half of all violent crimes are committed by a very small numbers of offenders. Lawmakers are now working to target that tiny group. And more thoughts on legislation that would dramatically change rules on unions in Ohio.
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| Hospitals say they give back far more in value than they get in tax breaks. |
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By Karen Kasler - July 16, 2007 |
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Ohio's hospitals say they give back far more than the tax breaks they get as non-profit institutions. The Ohio Hospital Association has finished a study of its 166 member institutions, which it says shows those hospitals provide at least $1.5 billion worth of benefits to their communities. William Harding is the president of Union Hospital in Dover and chairs the hospital association's board of trustees. He explains those benefits.
Harding says the payback hospitals offer is extensive.
And Harding admits that some hospitals have had to shut their doors because they couldn't keep up with soaring medical costs, especially with services for women having babies.
Harding says that one and a half billion dollars in benefits doesn't include more than $300 million in "bad debt", which comes from bills for medical services that go unpaid. And Harding says it also doesn't include the nearly $400 million gap between services offered to Medicaid patients and the amount that's reimbursed by the federal government. |
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