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!
