AFSCME Privatization Update

Source: K R Desai, C Van Deusen Lukas, and G J Young, Health Affairs, March/April 2000

..... This study addresses two questions: (1) Does privatization affect the amount of uncompensated care provided by public hospitals? (2) Does privatization to nonprofit
status have a different impact on the provision of uncompensated care than does privatization to for-profit status?

...... Our analysis reveals that public hospitals that were privatized provided significantly less uncompensated care before privatization than did other public hospitals, both before
and after privatization. E