Bipartisan Scrutiny Grows Over Nonprofit Hospitals’ Billions in Tax Benefits

How do you get conservative anti-DEI activist Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and New York’s socialist mayor candidate Zohran Mamdani on the same page?

Ask them about nonprofit hospitals and the abuse of billions in tax breaks meant to support community health care.

“These taxpayer subsidies, worth billions each year, are designed to help hospitals provide care to the underserved,” Goldfarb, chairman of medical ethics group Do No Harm, told the House Ways and Means Committee during a recent hearing. “But instead of focusing on curing disease, expanding access to care, and saving lives, too many of these institutions are squandering their taxpayer-backed resources on ideological experiments.”

And Mamdani wrote an article for the leftwing Jacobin magazine earlier this year, calling out New York ho