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		<title>Why We Need Health Reform</title>
		<link>http://healthstrong.org/2010/03/why-we-need-health-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guest Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joshua Freeman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicine and Social Justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by Dr. Joshua Freeman, a family physician, educator and author of the blog, Medicine and Social Justice. As we wait to see if the President’s health reform bill passes, it is a good time to review the actual core reasons why we need health reform. I believe that this will help ground us, and allow us to evaluate both whatever finally passes, and help us ignore the political posturing and maneuvering that distract us from them.]]></description>
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		<title>6 Myths Framing the Health Care Debate</title>
		<link>http://healthstrong.org/2010/03/6-myths-framing-the-health-care-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guest Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doug Iliff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post from Dr. Doug Iliff, a family physician who practices in Topeka, KS. He writes about six myths that are framing the health care debate such as rationing care and consumer empowerment. Myth 1: President Obama is trying to pull a fast one. He wants to ration care based on medical evidence. In fact, medical services are rationed now in any number of ways - including, but not limited to, ability to pay, insurance approval, location, transportation, attitudes of relatives and competence of medical professionals.]]></description>
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		<title>Sensationalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Care Rationing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marly McMillen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noam N. Levey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There's a lot of sensationalism in health care reform language: death panels, rationing care, government-run health care. These are all examples of sensationalism in the health care reform debate that's been causing a lot of angst. The thing is, they're based on misinformation.]]></description>
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		<title>Is Health Care Reform Important?</title>
		<link>http://healthstrong.org/2010/02/is-health-care-reform-important/</link>
		<comments>http://healthstrong.org/2010/02/is-health-care-reform-important/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[COBRA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Rosenbaum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marly McMillen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Bunning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Grassley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Lieberman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployed Americans]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthstrong.org/?p=465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I've read and heard lately that health care reform is dead, but I have a hard time believing this. Most people I talk to say that the anticipated outcomes of health care reform are still relevant. There are currently nearly 15 million unemployed Americans right now and more layoffs are expected each month. ]]></description>
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		<title>Transparency</title>
		<link>http://healthstrong.org/2010/02/transparency/</link>
		<comments>http://healthstrong.org/2010/02/transparency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mike Keefe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Denver Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthstrong.org/?p=450</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Should there be more transparency in the health care reform debate? If so, did the Health Care Summit make a difference?]]></description>
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		<title>Charlie Rose Discusses the Health Care Summit</title>
		<link>http://healthstrong.org/2010/02/charlie-rose-discusses-the-health-care-summit/</link>
		<comments>http://healthstrong.org/2010/02/charlie-rose-discusses-the-health-care-summit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Frist]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dona Shalala]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mark Halpern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Charlie Rose is having a panel discussion about today's Health Care Summit. Members of the panel include: Dona Shalala, Bill Frist, Joseph Califano, Mark Halpern, and Ezra Klein. ]]></description>
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		<title>Access to Healthcare</title>
		<link>http://healthstrong.org/2009/12/access-to-healthcare/</link>
		<comments>http://healthstrong.org/2009/12/access-to-healthcare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[access to care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dartmough Medical School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disparities of care]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthstrong.org/?p=420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent report published by Reuters indicates that the line between the haves and the have-nots is expanding beyond just those that have health insurance. The article describes disparities in where doctors locate and illustrates the point with the scenario of White Plains, NY. This city has doctors a plenty lining up to provide care to a population of people with the highest national income (approximately $77,000 per year). This is not the case for economically struggling Bakersfield, CA. The article describes how diabetic patients have to take a 2-hour bus ride to Fresno to get the care they need.]]></description>
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		<title>Trickle-Up Economics In Health Care? pt. 2</title>
		<link>http://healthstrong.org/2009/11/trickle-up-economics-in-health-care-pt-2/</link>
		<comments>http://healthstrong.org/2009/11/trickle-up-economics-in-health-care-pt-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jgrundy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Joe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cost containment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[f]or the majority of Americans, the largest portion of their health expenses are covered by their employer. At last estimates approximately 58% of Americans get their health insurance through their employers. The average cost of premiums per individual was $3,515 in 2009 whereas for employers (particularly major employers such as GE or IBM) the cost for providing health insurance to employees was $9,860. Thus, the burden of directly paying for insurance for individuals primarily falls on the employer community. JXEKSW2QWPDF]]></description>
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		<title>Trickle-Up Economics In Health Care?</title>
		<link>http://healthstrong.org/2009/11/trickle-up-economics-in-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://healthstrong.org/2009/11/trickle-up-economics-in-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jgrundy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dana gould]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the Daily Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trickle-up economics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthstrong.org/?p=217</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Health care costs move from the individual, micro-level, all the way to the final purchaser (or reimburser) of health care the American government. Each time the expense is passed on to a new body in this perverse economic system, it grows more costly and/or inefficient.]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Myths &#8211; Learning Lessons from Abroad</title>
		<link>http://healthstrong.org/2009/11/health-care-myths-learning-lessons-from-abroad/</link>
		<comments>http://healthstrong.org/2009/11/health-care-myths-learning-lessons-from-abroad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jgrundy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Joe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care rationing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[T.R. Reid]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthstrong.org/?p=249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Please consider this the second post dedicated to analyzing a specific health care myth in an ongoing series. The intent of this post is address the myth that we here in America should not look overseas to learn about meaningful and effective health reform. From accusing any foreign health system of being socialist or of rationing health care or even claiming that we have the best health care system in the world.

The comparative focus of this post is on a single foreign system that generally fails to get significant attention – Japan. Now, by absolutely no means is the Japanese health system perfect, far from it. However, given the public bugaboo that is “socialized medicine” and the nature of our employer sponsored health care Japan presents an interesting study in how a private-employer based health care system can run efficiently and cut costs. ]]></description>
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