December 23rd, 2011

America spends over $500 billion every year so that elderly Medicare patients can get the care they need. But as health care costs rise, many are taking a closer look at what exactly we’re paying for. We’ve been conducting a yearlong investigation into a prominent hospital chain in California that is reporting unusually high rates of serious diseases. Watch our video on this story, which also aired on PBS NewsHour.

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    so medicare reform should be bureaucratic, to make it harder to fraud.
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