The US medical system has long claimed to be exceptional.<\/p>\n
For example, every medical billing department has a team on staff to add insult to injury. They wanted to know if they could keep them under the new law.<\/p>\n
And the answer was, “Yes, if you like them.”<\/p>\n
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