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Hospitals' real margin pressure comes from HR costs
Editor's Note: Reader Jim Novak wrote the following response to a column I wrote in the August 27 issue of HealthLeaders Media Finance in which I reported on issues that the major rating agencies feel are putting pressure on hospital operating margins.