71.   Mayne is the biggest private hospital operator in Australia.

72.   Many veterans hospitals are near private hospitals that also have unused beds.

73.   Melone collapsed at home and was taken to a private hospital.

74.   Ms. Schmale said that last year, a private hospital was taken over by North Shore University Hospital, which is tax-exempt.

75.   Ms. Mitchell also said she was not overly concerned about the exodus of patients to private hospitals.

76.   Only three are rated good, two of them private hospitals inaccessible to all but the wealthy few.

77.   Private hospitals that treat Medicaid patients are similarly threatened.

78.   Private hospitals also joined the fray.

79.   Private hospitals are geared toward treating insured patients with the ability to pay.

80.   Private hospitals, which have themselves lost business to managed care, have become increasingly interested in treating poor people with government insurance, she said.