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Hospitals: The Cost of Admission

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The CBS News program 60 Minutes spent a year investigating a hospital chain -- Health Management Associates, the fourth largest for-profit hospital chain in the country. Numerous emergency room physicians and other administrators say they were pressured to admit patients to the hospital to drive up revenues. "Money was the chief motivator," reports one doctor, on camera.

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