The Real Cost of For Profit Healthcare


	The Real Cost of For Profit Healthcare

ratilfar

9-28-2009 5:11 PM

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The expensive care has already forced the family out of their home, which was foreclosed, and forced them to sell their furniture and to cash in their life insurance.

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