It is easy for hospital administrators to hope that Medicaid expansion coupled with the recent healthcare reforms will force many of their nonpaying patients onto Medicaid.

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Song, a Beijing film student continuing her schooling in Paris, videotapes Simon, to his delight, while Suzanne, who is working on a puppet show, is trying to toss out her nonpaying tenant, a screenwriter friend, to make room for her older daughter, who is arriving from Brussels.

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