Montana Non-Profit Hospitals Net Assets Up 44% Under Obama and the Affordable Care Act

From a review of the Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA), I found 2 Non-Profit Hospital Organizations headquartered in the State of Montana with Net Assets (i.e. Financial Strength or Total Assets minus Total Liabilities) at the most recent date of more than $200 mil each.  Below here are the Net Assets of these 2 at both the most recent reported date and also at the Fiscal Year End (FYE) closest to the beginning of the Obama Administration:

						FYE	Balance	Net
				Most		Balance	Sheet	Assets
			Most	Recent		Sheet	Net	%
			Recent	Balance		Date	Assets	Change
			Balance	Sheet		Beginning	Beginning	During
	City	State	Sheet	Net		Obama	Obama	Obama
Hospital Organization	HQs	HQs	Date	Assets		Admin	Admin	Admin
				mil $s			mil $s
Benefis Health System	Great Falls	MT	Dec 13	293		Dec 08	213	38%
Bozeman Deaconess Health Services	Bozeman	MT	Dec 13	274		Dec 08	181	51%
Total of both				567			394	44%

As you can see from the above chart, the Total Net Assets (Financial Strength) of these 2 Montana Non-Profit Hospital Organizations increased by a robust 44% in their 5.00 years of the Obama Administration.

Very positively impacting this very solid increase in the Net Assets (Financial Strength) of these 2 Montana Hospitals were actions taken by both the Obama Administration and the US Fed to strengthen the US Financial Foundation which was severely damaged from the financial meltdown in late 2008.

In addition, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has also played a key role in this robust increase in Net Assets (Financial Strength) of these 2 Montana Non-Profit Hospital Organizations.

A remarkable thing is that these very robust increases in Net Assets (Financial Strength) of these Non-Profit Hospital Organizations occurred when these Non-Profit Hospitals were also playing very instrumental roles in the substantial annual percentage growth reduction of Total US Health Care Costs which occurred in each of the most recent three years under the ACA.

With such very solid Net Asset percentage increases of these 2 Montana Hospitals, a key beneficiary of this will be Montana citizens electing to buy health insurance on the Health Insurance Exchange.  This strong Net Asset growth gives these Montana Hospitals the financial flexibility to moderate their pricing for hospital procedures in their negotiations with health insurance companies which ultimately determines what insurance premium prices are set at by health insurance companies on the Health Insurance Exchange.