America’s hospitals are supposed to be places where politics take a back seat to patient care.
But there is a growing question Tennesseans should be asking: When Washington gives hospitals a special federal benefit intended to help vulnerable patients, do taxpayers know where that money actually goes?
A recent op-ed in The Tennessean rightly highlighted the precarious nature of rural health care, but it missed a critical systemic issue: how a vital federal safety-net program – 340B – is being exploited by hospitals at the expense of the vulnerable people it was built to protect.
Read more in the [Nashville] Tennessean.