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Health law snag may cost hospitals
...The error was a simple and unintentional omission in the final, frenetic days of drafting the landmark legislation and reconciling House and Senate versions. Con gressional staff intended to allow children’s hospitals continued access to the portion of a federal program that offers below-market prices on 347 specific medicines for rare, life-threatening conditions. But that language was accidentally altered.

“It was a drafting error,’’ said a congressional aide familiar with the writing of the bill but not authorized to speak publicly....