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

OP do you own a car?

If you drive 10,000KM in the car, is it free because you own it? Or do you need to pay for fuel, a service, maybe new tyres/brakes?