Why do they say “it costs the hospital to use the machine” when the hospital owns the machine?

Question

It always confused me. A hospital has an MRI or some other machine, and you hear they try to use it as little as possible to cut costs, because it costs them this or that amount per usage. But why would that be if they own it?

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Answer 1

Well kiddo remember how you only made it to age five because when you were four you spent two weeks in the hospital with an infection that wound up costing your family forty grand even though they have health insurance? It turns out the hospital has American insurance too.