Hot-Spotters Aren’t “The Problem”...But They Are Emblematic of the Failure of U.S. Healthcare

Hemal K. Kanzaria1, Jerome R. Hoffman2
1Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
2University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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