How do you operate a for-profit hospital when the law dictates you must take in everybody regardless of ability to pay? How do you operate a for-profit hospital when the prices you can charge are dictated by regulations and not by the market?
I'm guessing that the answer includes as one factor the answer to this question: "am I a friend of Governor Andrew Cuomo."
Here the word "friend" is interchangable with the expression "big campaign contributor."
Ah... they “fail miserably” according to these nurses...
They fail because the government forces them to fail.
It is rather easy. You pay low wages, you dictate to physicians, you strong arm suppliers on cost, you provide the minimum quantity and quality of care, you operate in states with little or no rate control, you collect bills better than anyone else, and you push the envelope to the max on every rule and regulation possible. The Rick Scott (HCA) model of corporate medicine if you will. Yet the model works and until the ACA, has been the operating standard for almost all hospitals. For profit hospitals have allowed countless rural and small city communities to keep their access to care.