“The law is the law.” That’s an old cliché that no longer applies in the nation’s capital, at least when it comes to the popular new statute that was designed to protect patients from surprise bills for medical services while keeping the medical system healthy.
The Washington, D.C., bureaucracy is staging a quiet, rearguard action to rewrite the law — called the No Surprises Act — in ways that will hurt the patients and the healthcare system it was supposed to help.
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