LETTER: Why call LGH a public charity?

I think it’s shameful for you to invoke Buckwalter’s death to make a stupid trite pitch for minor annual budget adjustments and “syringe exchanges.” What stubborn arrogant myopia.

You’re the only one calling LGH a “public charity.”

EDITOR’S RESPONSE: “Public Charity” is the federal category under which LGH obtains its tax exempt status. It is a not-for-profit institution. As such, it is obliged to serve the public.

If it were a for-profit corporation, about $35 million of its $100 million average profits would be returned to the public in the form of corporate and personal income taxes.

It also would be subject to share holder scrutiny.

Thus, given the Public Charity status, the public should have some say in how the astounding profits, largely derived through market dominence and at policy holder’s expense, are to be utilized.

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