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Health Insurer Requires Patients to Begin Operating on Themselves Before Arriving at Hospital

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Andy Borowitz
Dec 05, 2024
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CHICAGO (The Borowitz Report)—In what the company called a “slight modification in policy,” on Thursday one of the nation’s largest health insurers announced that it would require surgical patients to begin operating on themselves prior to their hospital admissions.

“Many of the preliminary procedures currently done in the operating room consume valuable…

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