“Does the patient really benefit as much from the million-dollar piece of art and the marble floors as they would from not being stuck with a $100,000 bill that was marked up by 250%?” asks Dr. Without shareholders to return those profits to, nonprofit hospitals instead pour money into buildings, patient amenities, and the latest equipment-not to mention executive salaries. “Nonprofit hospitals are like spending machines,” says Elisabeth Rosenthal, author of American Sickness and editor-in-chief of Kaiser Health News. In 2020, UPMC earned $23 billion in revenue and $836 million in operating profit. The film shines a light on a dirty little secret of the healthcare industry: that nonprofit hospitals often hold monopolistic power and employ business practices that seek to maximize profits rather than community benefits.Īnd many nonprofit hospitals are wildly successful in maximizing profits. “I don’t want to say on my deathbed, ‘Crap, I’m dying because they wouldn’t let me see the doctor.’”
“My fight to maintain my healthcare has robbed me of the strength to care for my health,” McCracken says in the film. Beth McCracken was one of the patients at risk of losing access to her doctors at UPMC if they didn’t sign a new agreement with Highmark. A patient with rare cancer being treated at UPMC, McCracken couldn’t afford to switch insurance and feared for her health without her UPMC specialists.
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