88、The following appeared in a newspaper feature story.
"At the small, nonprofit hospital in the town of Saluda, the average length of a patient’s stay is two days; at the large, for-profit hospital in the nearby city of Megaville, the average patient stay is six days. Also, the cure rate among patients in the Saluda hospital is about twice that of the Megaville hospital. The Saluda hospital has more
employees1 per patient than the hospital in Megaville, and there are few
complaints2 about service at the local hospital. Such data indicate that treatment in smaller, nonprofit hospitals is more
economical3 and of better quality than treatment in larger, for-profit hospitals.