I didn't downvote you and in fact, I agreed with the fact that a significant portion of the exorbitant healthcare prices in the US can be traced back to administrative bloat, MBAs who are in the management and to a degree, the significantly-higher-than-OECD-average salaries of the doctors in the US.
>"The end result is a privately-owned hospital that operates as a non-profit on the books when it is anything but that... American doctors and hospital executives are printing money using the backs of their patients as the die. They take in millions per year in compensation that was given to them by people who worked hard and fell on bad times. It is one of the most shameful forms of exploitation in modern history."
I'm just unsurprised, as that is consistent with my view of many (most?) non-profits. I also think that the executive pay component is a smaller share than that Redditor seems to.
Having said that, your belief that many hospitals are non-profit might not be as simple as it looks from the outside. I recently read an insider writing something about it on Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/SelfAwarewolves/comments/pruk4x/the...
Hope that gives you an additional viewpoint regarding the "non-profit" label of the hospitals.