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Hospitals would like to lobby Congress for increased government payments, new reimbursement incentives, and less red tape. Instead, they\u2019re 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\u2019 tax cuts, Daniel Payne reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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