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Insurers Object To Charity Helping Poor Buy Health Coverage
The charity, A Better LA, said it would sign up 50 low-income Californians for Obamacare plans, but insurers protested that such help could skew insurance pools toward sicker people, The Wall Street Journal reports. Other media explore the increase in challenges to the tax breaks traditionally given to nonprofit hospitals and Medicare's release of data rating hospitals on hip and knee replacement surgeries.
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