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		<title>NCQA Gives Poor Grades to AZ Health Plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[US News&#8217; latest issue has a ranked list of the top ten health plans in the nation. No surprise that none of Arizona&#8217;s plans made the list of top ten commercial plans. You have to reach #128 before HealthNet comes up. More enlightening was that our plans didn&#8217;t make it into the top 50 for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn Whether You Should be a 501(c)(3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>francine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have a program or service&#8230; &#8230;perhaps one that provides volunteer services, helps persons with disabilities, targets youth, obesity or some other community issue? Do people tell you&#8230; &#8230;that you need to be a non-profit organization and have a 501(c)(3) designation? Do you know what that means? Along with the tasks of how to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference Features Health Care Innovators</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>francine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AZEC09]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AZHEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brad Tritle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EmpowHer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Robson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a bit less active on the reform front this week because I&#8217;m preparing for next week&#8217;s Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference,, which will of course have a large part of the program &#8212; a keynote and a panel &#8212; devoted to health care and the entrepreneurial responses to the broken system. I produce that conference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Reform and the Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>francine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Bartlett]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Diane Rehm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform+economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norman Ornstein]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I was listening to The Diane Rehm show, because it was a segment on health care and the economy. What was amazing about the show was the consensus among guests from varying backgrounds: Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute; coauthor with Thomas Mann of &#8220;The Broken Branch: How Congress Is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Third of All Health Care Spending is Wasted</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>francine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Kelley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomson Reuters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waste]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Veteran health care reporter Maggie Fox reports today on a Reuters study that confirms what President Obama has been saying all along, and what a 60 Minutes segment told us last night: money is leaking out of our health care system &#8212; one third of all health care expenditures are wasted. And 22% of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living with Leukemia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>francine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MedicAid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine, happily a really good writer, is living with chronic leukemia. Today, it&#8217;s a treatable disease, but only for the rich or the poor. If you are poor and are on ACCCHS (Arizona&#8217;s Medicaid) Gleevec, the miracle drug that has converted leukemia from a death sentence to a chronic condition, can be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EmpowHer Reforms Health Care, Not Insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>francine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare reform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[health care refomr]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I visited Scottsdale-based EmpowHer.com,on whose advisory board I serve. EmpowHer is not waiting around for reform in the system, it is providing the information women need to manage their own conditions, practice prevention and wellness, and help each other heal. Like many other Health 2.0 communities, it has patient empowerment as its goal. Now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Arizona Lose KidsCare to Balance the Budget?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.healthworksaz.org/will-arizona-lose-kidscare-to-balance-the-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>francine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Governor&#8217;s Office has asked Arizona state agencies to submit a budget with 15% further cuts for the next fiscal year to help the State balance the budget. They are all posted on the web, so I took a look at the cuts proposed by AHCCCS, after the DPS went to the media with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pat Elliott Talks Further About Her Experience with Health Insurance, Cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.healthworksaz.org/pat-elliott-talks-further-about-her-experience-with-health-insurance-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthworksaz.org/pat-elliott-talks-further-about-her-experience-with-health-insurance-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>francine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What you really want to know, and are too polite to ask, is how sick am I and what&#8217;s ahead? Yesterday I got some answers and am happy to share them with you. I&#8217;ve been on Gleevec for one month, and yesterday&#8217;s test results show that it&#8217;s WORKING. It wasn&#8217;t a given that it would, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swine Flu Will Bring Rationing</title>
		<link>http://www.healthworksaz.org/swine-flu-will-bring-rationing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>francine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[H1N1 flu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;a all over the newspapers and the TV today: the fear that swine flu will overwhelm emergency rooms and cause rationing of services like intensive care beds and respirators. More ominous, there is already a shortage of children&#8217;s Tamiflu, an anti-viral drug that is often prescribed to treat the H1N1 virus. Pharmacists are compounding adult [...]]]></description>
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