Unfortunately even in the health care industry we are being hit. My employer just laid-off around 200 employees. Unfortunately, with the budgets being tight people are not paying on their under-insured hospital bills. To give you an idea of the impact the economy has made last year at about this time there were approximately 7.1 million dollars and this year those totals reach 32.3 million. Unfortunately when times are lean more people seek care at emergency rooms since they cannot be turned away for lack of finances, so this leaves us with more of a loss.
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