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	<title>HealthWorksAZ &#187; Medicare</title>
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		<title>The Single Greatest Threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The single greatest threat to U.S. budget stability is federal healthcare spending, according to a recent report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).  Reality, some say, is a consensual hallucination.  Certainly the linear projection of our health system status quo, with infinite desires meeting finite resources, fits that definition.]]></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>
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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>Health 2.0 Empowers Patients and Providers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>francine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via CrunchBase I love to attend Health 2.0 and listen to the parade of innovative solutions being developed by entrepreneurs who see the gigantic problems in the health care system and are trying to solve them. Until recently, adoption by the major players in the industry was slow to non-existent, but this year I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Physicians Not as Miffed by Medicare Fees as You Think</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>francine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lucky me! I just got a copy of the new (August 2009) survey on ease of physician access by Medicare patients conducted for the Senate Finance Committee by the Government Accountability Office. In the midst of hot debate about access to care through a single payer system or a public plan (opponents say there will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Will Be the Role of Government in Health Care Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>francine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Health Affairs Journal held a press conference/policy briefing last week in Washington, DC to illuminate some of the issues involved in health care reform and separate out fact from fiction. I listened to about half of it, and can assure you the speakers were well-informed and to the point. You might want to download [...]]]></description>
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