I can see where you think that is what I said. Let me rephrase it. Hospital 1 is not worth even considering. If you go hospitals at all, I recommend going with a minimum of tier 2.
As Russia I never go with hospitals at all. It just does not work well with their style of warfare and they absolutely don't care about the manpower aspect.
I usually don't go with hospitals at all to be honest, though I am considering doing so in my upcoming MP game as Germany. I probably won't actually make the decision one way or the other until 1937. If I do use hospitals as Germany it will be only for my line infantry. For panzer divisions I think minimizing the loss of the expensive tanks is more important and that means both a logistics and a maintenance company. Add engineers and some extra soft attack from artillery as well as AA and you have no slot for the hospital.
I also think the hospitals are less valuable in armored units anyway for a few reasons. Combat losses tend to be lower because of hardness and armor etc. They just take lower losses. Also their battles tend to be shorter so less chance to be gaining experience to begin with.
One then has to ask oneself about the relative importance of your armored and infantry contingents in an operation like Barbarossa. If all you expect you infantry to do is to hold the line, advance when able and reduce pockets, there is no point in worrying about hospitals for them either. If you expect you infantry to push the line on their own without always having tank support then the answer might be to include them.
