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Sen. Grassley Hits Hospital Tax Breaks in Health Reform Hearing

From the Wall Street Journal Health Blog:

Sen. Chuck Grassley took another swipe at lucrative tax breaks of nonprofit hospitals yesterday–-at a hearing that wasn’t even about hospitals.

In prepared remarks, Sen. Grassley said, “the troubling thing about her story is that these were the actions taken by a hospital that’s funded through taxpayers’ dollars and charitable gifts.” A staffer told the Health Blog in an email that Grassley was “particularly shocked at the upfront-billing tactics” described in the WSJ article.

Hinting once again that the nonprofit tax breaks could be in jeopardy unless hospitals change their billing practices, Grassley said: “As we talk about the tax incentives for health insurance, I want us to also consider the billions of dollars of tax benefits conferred to nonprofit hospitals.”