double dead
adj.— «“Double dead” would be an apt description of the PHIC strangulation moves on Philippine hospitals (on one hand withholding payment of PHIC claims and on the other, bleeding the hospitals dry for every last peso that can be squeezed from them from whatever new fund-raising schemes the PHIC can come up with).» —“Health Economics P20 million between friends” by Ed Clemente BusinessWorld (Philippines) Apr. 9, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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