WHO REALLY PAYS THE BILL?

Some readers were angered by the report in Michael Kramer's column ''Pulling the Plug'' ((THE POLITICAL INTEREST, Oct. 4)) of a medical bill for Hugh Rodham. Kramer writes that Hillary Rodham Clinton's 82-year-old father spent the last three weeks of his life in St. Vincent's Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas, and quotes a physician familiar with Rodham's case as saying, ''He would normally have been discharged after a week because that's all the treatment Medicare would cover for someone in his condition, but he stayed on because of who he was. The hospital ate the bill for about $10,000.'' Helen L....

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