Is that openness towards getting to a system where again the reimbursement to the hospital is based upon a more simplified methodology, and the methodology that is tied to the nature of the service that is provided, not an arbitrary time period for which that patient is in the hospital?
Gerlach questions the need for a simplified hospital reimbursement system based on services provided.
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I certainly sympathize with my colleagues from California and their efforts to address the financial hardships in their congressional districts.
I am also pleased that the section of this legislation modernizing the Section 202 program providing affordable housing for the elderly includes important language that I was able to include in our last Congress.
The American public deserves to know, as do researchers in government and out of government, where did this money go?
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