In households across America, HEALTHCARE COSTS are CRUSHING the AMERICAN DREAM.

The AVERAGE FAMILY NOW PAYS nearly $20,000 ANNUALLY between insurance PREMIUMS, DEDUCTIBLES, and OUT-of-POCKETS COSTS.

In 1970, healthcare amounted to SEVEN-PERCENT of gross domestic product (GDP). TODAY, estimates suggest the soaring cost of healthcare will consume 20-PERCENT of our GDP.

Last year, patients SPENT roughly 1 out of EVERY 7 U.S. healthcare DOLLARS within these healthcare NETWORKS. Many are household names: MAYO Clinic, CLEVELAND Clinic, KAISER Foundation, DIGNITY Health, and PARTNERS HealthCare.

These powerful institutions are organized as PUBLIC CHARITIES – NOT as FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS. THEIR MISSION is to DELIVER the LATEST in MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES and AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE to THEIR communities. ANY “PROFITS” MUST BE RE-INVESTED INTO THEIR CHARITABLE MISSION.

However, these 82 non-profit medical providers are MAKING BIG MONEY.

Last year, their COMBINE NET ASSETS INCREASED from $164.2 BILLION to $203.1 BILLION – that’s 23.6-PERCENT GROWTH.

Meanwhile, their EXECUTIVES are HIGHTLY COMPENSATED. The Banner Health Chief Executive Officer and President earned $21.6 MILLION and their Executive Vice President and CAO made $12 MILLION last year.

TOP EXECUTIVES at Memorial Hermann Health System, KAISER Health, Ascension, Advocate Health Care, and Northwestern Memorial made between $10 MILLION and $18 MILLION.

For comparison, ANALYSIS includes the FIVE LARGEST PUBLICALY TRADED FOR-PROFIT U.S. HOSPITALS.

These FIVE CORPORATIONS had $96 BILLION in REVENUES last year with NET ASSET GROWTH of $600 MILLION: an INCREASE in ASSETS from $40.1 BILLION to $40.7 billion year-over-year (1.5% increase).

TAXPAYERS DESERVE to KNOW whether our non-profit healthcare providers, which USE OUR LAWS to structure themselves as CHARITIES, are TRULY WORKING FOR PATIENTS.

These non-profits PAY NO INCOME TAXES, or PROPERTY TAXES, and RAISED OVER $5 BILLION last year in TAX-DEDUCTIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM DONORS.