That shows up on the big hospital chains' profit-and-loss statements, where bad debt levels have almost doubled to 10% of revenue since 2000.

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Combs continued on, from his early days running Bad Boy Records, to become a cottage industry with everything from clothing lines to restaurant chains, not to mention music-making.

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