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Hospitals would like to lobby Congress for increased government payments, new reimbursement incentives, and less red tape. Instead, they’re having to spend much of their time and political capital trying to delay and mitigate some of the $1 trillion in health care spending cuts that helped fund Republicans’ tax cuts, Daniel Payne reports.
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John writes about the politics of health care, and he is the author of the twice-weekly D.C. Diagnosis newsletter. You can reach John on Signal at John_Wilkerson.07.
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