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A few weeks ago, we put out an update about charity care.

That's the commitment by hospitals to lower

or just forgive bills for folks who can't pay them. And our story was partly about how much

less charity care hospitals give out than their own policies say they should. And a few days

later, I got an email from a listener. I'm Joey Ballard, and I'm an internal medicine resident.

Joey sent me a link.

The American Medical Association, or AMA, the country's largest group representing doctors,

and, for a long time, one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the country,

had just passed a resolution supporting legislation that would

require hospitals to do more.

Joey said he was the original author of that resolution.

He had proposed it as a medical student, and he had gotten the idea from listening to this

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