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Safety-Net Hospitals. (AMA Briefs).
The AMA must act to save safety-net hospitals, which are in serious jeopardy, the delegates said. In the last few years, the hospitals that provide the most indigent care have been hard hit by Medicaid cuts and by the fact that Medicaid HMO programs tend ...
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