Hostile takeovers are never polite. One fight in America, however, has become particularly ugly. In December a huge stockmarket-traded hospital company, Community Health Systems, announced that it wanted to buy another, Tenet Healthcare, for $3.3 billion. The bid soon became a brawl. In the saga's most recent chapter, Tenet filed a lawsuit accusing Community of overbilling government and private health-insurance schemes. Community denies this and, as The Economist went to press, was due to present a more detailed rebuttal.
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机译：敌意收购永远不会客气。然而，美国的一场斗争变得尤为丑陋。去年12月，一家大型股票交易的医院公司Community Health Systems宣布，它想以33亿美元的价格收购另一家Tenet Healthcare。出价很快就成为了争吵。在传奇故事的最新一章中，Tenet提起诉讼，指控社区对政府和私人健康保险计划进行了过度收费。社区否认了这一点，正如《经济学人》刊登时所说的那样，社区将提出更详细的反驳。
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