Published October 15, 2009

Rice Memorial Hospital reports its provided $18.5M in community benefits last year chat

By Anne Polta, West Central Tribune

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Judy J.
Willmar, MN     10/15/2009 10:10 PM

So what does this statement mean? "Benefits such as community events, education and support for patients, and in-kind staff time for a wide range of projects accounted for another $1.8 million." It would be nice to see a break down of these expenditures. What community events? What kind of education? What types of "support for patients"? What does "in-kind" staff time? What sort of "wide range projects"? “It is important to share what we are doing,” said Bill Fenske, chief financial officer for Rice Hospital. “We do a tremendous amount of things out in the community,” agreed Mike Schramm, the hospital’s chief executive. “There’s a lot of things we do the general public does not see or know.” So how about an article in the paper with answers to these questions? I would be interested in knowing this information.

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Ian S.
Atwater, MN     10/15/2009 8:57 PM

And so you can see that is how the current health system works. They charge the people that have insurance more to cover the cost of the people that don't have insurance (and can't pay). That is cost-shifting, that is the current system. SO, if we are already paying for everyones healthcare why not actually provide everyone insurance? Is it just me? If everyone had some sort of insurance, all of our (people that already have insurance) insurance premiums should (theorhetically) go down. Correct?

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