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		<title>Congress and lobbyists working together to stifle debate on healthcare</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 12:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stars do seem aligned for much needed change in the US healthcare system. But the organizations with a vested interest in the status quo, their lavishly funded lobbyists, and their tame Congressmen are going to do their damndest to make sure it does not happen.
The Boston Globe has an interesting article today: Held hostage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDA &#8211; another example of &#8220;soft corruption&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just how does the Food and Drug Administration decide what drugs or devices to approve for use by the public?
These decisions are made by FDA Advisory Committees made up of experts in the field.
Today&#8217;s New York Times (22 March, 2007) has an article F.D.A. Rule Limits Role of Advisors Tied to Industry which says that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Health Care Plan So Simple&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s NY Times has an article (A Health Care Plan So Simple, Even Stephen Colbert Couldn&#8217;t Simplify It by Robert H. Frank an economics professor at Cornell &#8211; New York Times, February 15, 2007; page C3) which is worth reading.
In his State of the Union address, President Bush proposed tax cuts to make health insurance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The battle between Universal and Single-Payer Healthcare has begun</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US healthcare system is a disaster. If you total up all the healthcare costs (government tax dollars, private insurance premiums, etc.), US healthcare costs about twice as much per person as the healthcare in any European country, Canada, or Japan. And yet we have 40 million or so uninsured and on virtually every measure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now that he&#8217;s left town&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://2centsworth.info/general/now-that-hes-left-town</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Globe has an article (February 3, 2007 by Rick Klein) entitled Romney distances self from Mass. health plan. Just as GW slunk off to Washington leaving various disasters in Texas, Mitt is doing the same.
As pointed out in the Globe article:
The plan for statewide, near-universal health coverage was the centerpiece of Romney&#8217;s administration, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector debacle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well the citizens of Massachusetts (and, indeed, the State Legislature) are waking up to just what a mess this so-called universal healthcare initiative actually is.
The front page of the Boston Globe (January 27, 2007) has an article talking about the bloated salaries being paid to the administers of this quasi-state agency (the official name is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Pills, Lobbyists, and Meth Addiction&#8230; Time for a class action lawsuit?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a very interesting program on PBS FrontLine the other night about the growing epidemic of addiction to meth-amphetamines. You can find out more at the The METH EPIDEMIC page on the pbs.org website.
The program describes how the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) attempted to head off the problem of meth-amphetamine addiction 20 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting a lasso round Big Pharma</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US healthcare system is a shambles (e.g. 44 million uninsured, the highest per-capita spending in the world but health statistics among the worst outside the Third World, etc.) but one of the bigger problems is the sky-rocketing costs of prescriptions drugs.
One of the current battles going on in the newly Democratic Congress is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Universal Coverage&#8230; Or Universal Rip-off?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s (January 20, 2007) Boston Globe there is an article entitled Sticker shock for state care plan talking about the new Massachusetts state-mandated health plan&#8230;
State-mandated, to be clear, means that all citizens are going to be required to have state-approved health coverage. If you cannot show that you have state-approved coverage then you will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conflicts of Interest&#8230; Another pain in the&#8230; Back.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another illuminating New York Times article (December 30, 2006) entitled The Spine as Profit Center.  The article raises questions about how many of the 500,000 spine operations performed each year actually benefit the patients, and whether the surgeons performing the procedures are influenced by financial conflicts of interest.
It turns out that not only are [...]]]></description>
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