I took an interest in this article and a couple more I am posting based on "diagnosis-related group"

"DRG means “diagnosis-related group.” According to this approach, the government has divided all ailments into 468 possible diagnoses, and has set in advance a fixed, arbitrary fee for each: it will pay a hospital only what it claims is the average cost of the ailment. For example, for a Medicare patient in the Western Mountain region who is admitted to a hospital with a heart attack and finally recovers enough to go home, the government now pays the hospital exactly $5094—no more and no less. And it pays this amount no matter what the hospital actually does for the patient, no matter how long his stay or how short, no matter how many services he requires or how few. If the patient costs the hospital more than the government payment, the hospital loses money on him. If he costs less, the hospital makes a profit."
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Quite interesting. Learn something new everyday.

This won't work, Hospitals can't run on losses, that means reduced wages, reduced hours, reduced benefits. welcome to socialism.

or, let the culling begin.