Word: merited
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...tricky thing about Scruggs' challenge is that he's taking on widespread industry practices, not just a handful of allegedly corrupt hospitals. The hospital industry's main lobbying group, the American Hospital Association (AHA), says the cases are "without merit." The main contention of the lawsuits is that nonprofit hospitals aren't spending enough on charity care--a condition of their tax breaks. But the AHA points out that hospitals spent $22.3 billion on uncompensated care last year and billions more in "community benefits." The trial lawyers, the AHA insists, are diverting focus from the real crisis: a record...
...Provena overly harsh? Patrick Coffey, a lawyer for Provena, says the Dumas signed forms promising to pay their bills and "agreed that the charges were fair. We reject the notion of any legal basis or merit to their claims." But the state of Illinois revoked a tax exemption for a Provena hospital based on findings that the hospital wasn't providing enough charity care; Provena is appealing...
...part, Zuckerberg is only following in the footsteps of another famous Harvard coder. Zuckerberg’s face may merit a seven where Bill Gates’ merited a two, but otherwise the similarities are unmistakable. Both were Harvard students, both left school during their sophomore year (although Zuckerberg has not confirmed his absence is permanent) and both were accused of stealing many of their ideas...
since the end of the cold war. And yet, when Kerry spoke to the VFW two days later, he attacked Bush's position, using an argument with some merit but of microscopic import in the midst of a presidential campaign: he said it was a "hasty" and "political" plan and certainly not a good negotiating tactic to withdraw troops from Korea while we are trying to get the North Koreans to drop their nuclear program...
Murphy wrote in an e-mail that the allegations are “completely without merit,” adding that FFIA made a “purely business decision” to settle...