TAMPA BAY TIMES: …Every year, Kids Wish Network raises millions of dollars in donations in the name of dying children and their families.
Every year, it spends less than 3 cents on the dollar helping kids.
Most of the rest gets diverted to enrich the charity’s operators and the for-profit companies Kids Wish hires to drum up donations… (more)
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The Obama administration had no problem writing healthcare rules requiring insurance companies to pay a minimum of 85% of their premium revenues for actual patient care. Would it be too much to ask the same for charities?