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April 25, 2012 11:18 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/TCrPbgyGaDQ/american-hospitals-turn-to-bed.html
American hospitals turn to bedside, emergency room debt-collectors
In the NYT, Jessica Silver-Greenberg writes about hospitals who "embed" debt-collectors in their emergency rooms and patient care. These debt collectors are indistinguishable from other hospital employees for patients, and they harass recovering patients at their bedsides about their ability to pay, and advise emergency-room patients not to seek care they can't afford. The debt [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/TCrPbgyGaDQ/american-hospitals-turn-to-bed.html
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