Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stormy and emotional meeting Tuesday night, the members of Local 26 shouted their dissatisfaction with the contract offer. They stressed their belief, as one worker put it, that "Harvard's trying to make a profit and we're trying to make a living...
Tentative results from a survey of nursing homes last year show that the average monthly charge in the profit-making homes as $641, compared with $722 in the non-profit homes, a spokesman for the National Center for Health Statistics said yesterday...
...cost figure could change, but Mark R. Meiners, a government economist, said they indicate the situation has changed from 1973-74, when a survey showed the non-profit homes charged $32 less than the profit-making ones...
Since Medicare and Medicaid began paying some nursing home bills, the non-profit homes have relied less on charity and subsidies to pay their costs, Meiners said...
Meiners added that the non-profit homes may provide more or better services, but thay also may simply be less efficient because they are not in the business to make money...