Governor: Because of the Current Term Paper

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To sustain their tax-exempt status as well, nonprofit hospitals must now avoid 'excessive compensation' for their officers, directors, and trustees, thus answering the criticism that nonprofit hospitals devote too high a percentage of their earnings to administrative costs, rather than care (IRS-exempt, 2009, IRS). There remains a clear need for nonprofits, based upon the available data on the population served by these hospitals and the additional services offered by nonprofits to the community. "Uncompensated care accounted for 56% of aggregate community benefit expenditures reported by the hospitals in the study… medical education and training (23%), research (15%), and community programs (6%)" (IRS-exempt, 2009, IRS: 2-3).

To answer criticisms, California can impose more stringent standards upon hospitals with tax-exempt status, given there remains evidence that not all nonprofits are equally beneficial to the community.
"Uncompensated care and community benefit expenditures were concentrated in certain hospitals and unevenly distributed. For example, 9% of the hospitals reported 60% of the aggregate community benefits expenditures of the overall group; 14% of the hospitals reported 63% of the aggregate uncompensated care expenditures" (IRS-exempt, 2009, IRS: 2-3). To incur some cost savings, a more stringent review process may be advisable but doing away with the exemption for nonprofits entirely seems unwise, particularly given the public health consequences of a burgeoning untreated population within the state......

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