It's editorial of Sept. 19 opens with "Kudos to the Lancaster General Hospital for boosting its payment in lieu of taxes by $25,000 a month to the School District of Lancaster....This is money the nonprofit hospital is not required to give, but does so, anyway."
WATCHDOG: Anyone who still doubts a tacit alliance between the Lancaster Newspapers and Lancaster General Hospital as members of the big Five (F & M, Fulton and High are the other three) should read this fawning homage.
No matter that the "nonprofit hospital" is profiting by over $160 million a year from the region and that its total contributions ... in lieu of county, city and school real estate taxes (which the rest of us have to pay) ... amounts to only two and one-half per cent (2 1/2%) of its annual earnings!
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