By rights,HealthSouth should be dead.The victim of crooked accounting that,when set straight,lopped US3.9 billion off shareholders' equity,this hospital and medical-services company could easily be pushing up daisies in the corporate graveyard.That it's not may owes mostly to U.S.health care's sclerosis.How else could a company keep getting paid by its top client,Uncle Sam,after having cheated big time on its bills?
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