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KINGSBROOK JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER v. RICHARDSON

No. 143, Docket 73-1552.

486 F.2d 663 (1973)

KINGSBROOK JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Elliot L. RICHARDSON, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Associated Hospital Service of New York (Blue Cross), Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 15, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Bray, Washington, D. C. (Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Washington, D. C., Edward A. Woolley, Bernard Zucker, Malcolm A. Hoffmann, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Harlington Wood, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. (Robert Morse, U. S. Atty., E. D. N. Y., Robert E. Kopp, Robert M. Feinson, Dept. of Justice, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before KAUFMAN, Chief Judge, and SMITH and MULLIGAN, Circuit Judges.

KAUFMAN, Chief Judge:

The well-intentioned statutes enacted in the days of the Great Society are often characterized by a linguistic imprecision which inevitably breeds dispute. The Medicare Act is no exception. Fortunately, resolution here does not require us to achieve clarification at the expense of possible confusion, since the section that we ultimately interpret speaks in words of plain and common sense.

Plaintiff Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, a...

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