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TAX WATCH
Hospitals Oppose Plan to Require Charity Care
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Nonprofit hospitals in Illinois are fighting a proposal by the state's attorney general that would require them to spend at least 8 percent of their total operating costs on charity care each year to retain their state tax exemptions.
Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who made the proposal last month, said that tax-exempt hospitals —...