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

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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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Anonymous 0 Comments

My gut says this is a communist troll but I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt.

The machines are privately owned by the hospital and /very/ expensive. Using anything deprecates it, hence why cars lose value based on mileage. The machine uses resources to operate it – electricity if nothing else. Also, the staff to operate the machines are well paid professionals.

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