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Re:How American Health Care Killed My Father by mrkurt on Thursday August 13, 2009 @10:54AM (#760880)
The last paragraph of the article addresses this specifically:

"Imagine my father’s hospital had to present the bill for his “care” not to a government bureaucracy, but to my grieving mother. Do you really believe that the hospital—forced to face the victim of its poor-quality service, forced to collect the bill from the real customer—wouldn’t have figured out how to make its doctors wash their hands?"

Re:How American Health Care Killed My Father by DannoHung on Friday August 14, 2009 @02:00AM (#762469)
Nope. Because collections are outsourced.