Francesca Hong: “Some of our nonprofit hospitals, while some do great work…”

“And where the state is going to need to build in additional revenue can come from regulatory things, like looking at how the hospitals that are maybe charging more than what they're getting reimbursed for Medicaid. Some of our nonprofit hospitals, while some do great work and should be scaled and get that support from the state, others are following, you know, the regulatory rules that came on them that from like the late 1970s. And it's difficult to see if those exemptions are actually going to care. And, you know, in terms of allies in the legislature, with this being such an important issue, …” (04:40–04:56)

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