1.   Hospitals would be paid for emergency treatment provided to the undocumented, a cost often shifted to other patients today.

2.   Because of the way Medicare pays the hospitals, increases in the amount that beneficiaries pay are offset by decreases in the amount Medicare pays, Coyle said.

3.   But rather than hospitals paying Planned Parenthood for providing this service, Planned Parenthood pays the hospitals for the lost labor.

4.   By then, the hospitals will be paid only for the residents they are actually training.

5.   He has already proposed wiping out federal rules that tell states how much they must pay hospitals.

6.   He noted that Medicare once introduced new approaches, like the system for paying hospitals according to diagnosis rather than length of stay.

7.   Hospitals were paid the same regardless of which device was used.

8.   Insurers used to pay hospitals based on a semiprivate room rate.

9.   Insurers will not pay hospitals to treat the poor or train high-quality residents.

10.   Last week they learned the government will start paying hospitals to terminate thousands of internships and residencies they were hoping to fill.