Alabama Non-Profit & Publicly-held Hospital Net Assets (Financial Strength) Up 436% Since 2008 Financial Meltdown ..... The Main Reason Health Insurance Premiums Are Now So Reasonable on Health Insurance Exchange

From a review of the Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) and financial statements in SEC filings, I found 3 Non-Profit Hospital Organizations and 1 Publicly-held Hospital Company all headquartered in the State of Alabama with Net Assets (i.e. Financial Strength or Total Assets minus Total Liabilities) at the most recent date reported of more than $400 mil each.

Below here are the Net Assets (Deficits) of these 4 Alabama Hospital Organizations at both the most recent reported date and also at the end of the Fiscal Year which included the late 2008 US Financial Meltdown:

							Net	Net
							Assets	Assets
						FYE	FYE	%
						Balance	Balance	Increase
						Sheet	Sheet	Since
				Most		Date	Date	FYE
			Most	Recent		Including	Including	Including
			Recent	Balance		2008-09	2008-09	2008-09
			Balance	Sheet		US	US	US
	City	State	Sheet	Net		Financial	Financial	Financial
US Hospital Organization	HQs	HQs	Date	Assets		Meltdown	Meltdown	Meltdown
				mil $s			mil $s
UAB Health System	Birmingham	AL	Dec 14	1,076		Sep 09	744	45%
Children's Hospital Alabama	Birmingham	AL	Dec 14	912		Dec 08	418	118%
City of Huntsville Health Care Authority	Huntsville	AL	Dec 14	870		Jun 09	569	53%
HealthSouth (Publicly-held Co)	Birmingham	AL	Sep 14	593		Dec 08	(1,087)	155%
Total all 4				3,451			644	436%

As you can see from the above chart, the Total Net Assets (Financial Strength) of these 4 largest Alabama Hospital Organizations totaled $3,451 mil, up a massive 436% from such Total Net Asset amounts of $644 mil at their fiscal year ends which included the 2008-09 US Financial Meltdown.

With such an incredibly impressive Alabama Hospital Net Asset percentage increase, a key beneficiary of this will be Alabama citizens who have elected or will be electing to buy health insurance on the Health Insurance Exchange.  This superb Net Asset growth has given and will continue to give these Alabama Hospitals the financial flexibility to moderate their pricing for hospital and other health care 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.