Can you expand upon hospitals for profit? Nixon’s presidency was quite a ways before I was born…I’ve been to his presidential library a few times and that was never mentioned.
I'm a volunteer docent at the Nixon Library, and I have never heard anything about hospitals for profit.
His buddy Kaiser talked him into it. It opened the door for what we have now. Hospitals that claim they are broke but have a building program just about everywhere you turn.
Specifically, Nixon signed the HMO act as a favor to Kaiser for campaign support. You will read varying stories about this but it opened the flood gates for the growth of HMOs and the expansion of profits for health care coverage.