Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100210:03:46:00
Transferred and paid for by the u.s. government. they had a rate of 110% of what medicare typically pays for that procedure. >> essentially the government, the u.s. taxpayers are paying for a haitian child who is treated in a hospital with a life-threatening condition. why is medicare paying 110% to a hospital as opposed to just paying 100%? >> i asked that same question. and one it provides them incentive for hospitals all over the country in various states to accept these patients. they have to have a hospital they can go to. the second reason is, there's some costs associated with a transfe...
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