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save you money. we ll push the hospital to discharge the patients as soon as possible, then we are going to say let s not re-add mitt that patient because that s costing us many millions of dollars. these penalty are involving some of the top hospitals in the country. big, big big hospitals. and the penalty will apply to all medicare payment to the hospital over the next several months. and the problem with that is what about care, bill? what is the government doing getsing in the midst of my hospital s medical care? if a patient had heart failure and they go home and god forbid they get worse i m not allowed to re-add mitt them without getting penalty? bill: you are arguing this is a big decision. it s a business decision but even on that level i have questions about it because i don t think it s efficient. if you start penalizing hospitals they will start cherry picking patients.