Q: Is it true that, under the Affordable Care Act, âMedicare will not pay anythingâ for patients receiving only âobservationâ care in hospitals? A: No. Medicare will pay a significant portion of observation care costs after copayments and deductibles are met. Nothing has changed as a result of the ACA.
1 An apostrophe-s may be used to indicate a plural for single lowercase letters, abbreviations with periods or other abbreviations where the s alone would be confusing such as x's. 2  Generally, apostrophes are only used for lower-case letters.
The student's had a variety of grades but the most were 70s or 90s. Right and Wrong! In the above example sentence the plural word (student's) does not require an apostrophe as plurals normally do not take an apostrophe. The plurals of numbers, however, can be written with an apostrophe or without.