Also no one should feel bad for hospitals not profiting as much as their peers in socialized countries, not when executive salaries in that industry looks the way it does.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/forefront.20220208.925255/In the world of nonprofit pay scales for executives, hospitals are outliers. A 2021 report from the Economic Research Institute (ERI) found that the average annual CEO pay in most nonprofit industries was between $100,000 and $200,000 in 2018. The two exceptions were university CEOs, who were paid an average of $350,000, and hospital CEOs, who were paid on average $600,000. But the average belies the true dimensions of executive salaries in health care systems. In 2018, Bernard Tyson, then-CEO of nonprofit health care giant Kaiser Permanente, made nearly $18 million, making him the highest-paid nonprofit CEO in the nation. The previous year, the top 10 highest paid nonprofit health system executives each made $7 million or more. Even the bottom 25 percent of nonprofit hospital CEOs enjoyed annual compensation of about $185,000 according to ERI—more than the highest-paid quartile for CEOs in nonprofit arts and culture, environmental, human services, and religion-related organizations.
