The Health Care Cost That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Excellent Jon Dwyer article on the health care cost nobody wants to talk about, enormous pay packages at hospitals largely dependent on public money:

At Bronx-Lebanon, a hospital that exists only by the grace and taxed fortunes of the people of New York State, the chief executive was paid $4.8 million in 2007 and $3.6 million in 2008, records show. At NewYork-Presbyterian, a hospital system that receives nearly half a billion dollars annually in public money, the chief executive was paid $9.8 million in 2007 and $2.8 million in 2008.

And on and on and on.