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		<title>Church Groups Form Sharing Ministries To Cover Members&#8217; Medical Costs</title>
		<link>http://studentdoctor.net/2011/04/church-groups-form-sharing-ministries-to-cover-members-medical-costs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 01:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health-care sharing ministries are financed through monthly fees, and those revenues are divvied up and sent to members when they have have health care expenses.  Provided by Kaiser Health News.]]></description>
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		<title>CBO: Seniors Would Pay Much More For Medicare Under Ryan Plan</title>
		<link>http://studentdoctor.net/2011/04/cbo-seniors-would-pay-much-more-for-medicare-under-ryan-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health care entitlement programs are targeted for major overhauls under the House GOP budget proposal, says the Congressional Budget Office.  Provided by Kaiser Health News.]]></description>
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		<title>As Medicaid Budgets Squeezed, States Consider Eccentric Ideas On Cutting Costs</title>
		<link>http://studentdoctor.net/2011/03/as-medicaid-budgets-squeezed-states-consider-eccentric-ideas-on-cutting-costs/</link>
		<comments>http://studentdoctor.net/2011/03/as-medicaid-budgets-squeezed-states-consider-eccentric-ideas-on-cutting-costs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[States look for money saving ideas, including suggestions from the public, to cut Medicaid costs.  Provided by Kaiser Health News.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Doctors Continued To Spend Big On Lobbying in 2010</title>
		<link>http://studentdoctor.net/2011/02/doctors-continued-to-spend-big-on-lobbying-in-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://studentdoctor.net/2011/02/doctors-continued-to-spend-big-on-lobbying-in-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2010, the American Medical Association spent nearly $22 million on lobbying.  Article provided by Kaiser Health News.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Quit The RUC</title>
		<link>http://studentdoctor.net/2011/01/quit-the-ruc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WildWing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Klepper and David C. Kibbe discuss how AMA's Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) is driving the shortage in primary care physicians.  Provided by Kaiser Health News.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>What Repeal Is Not About</title>
		<link>http://studentdoctor.net/2011/01/what-repeal-is-not-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House is about to vote on the repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  What does this mean?  Provided by Kaiser Health News.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>Analysis: The Long Road To A Supreme Court Decision On Health Law&#8217;s Mandate</title>
		<link>http://studentdoctor.net/2011/01/analysis-the-long-road-to-a-supreme-court-decision-on-health-laws-mandate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What will happen in the courts to the controversial health care reform "individual mandate" clause?  An analysis of the road to a Supreme Court decision from Kaiser Health News.]]></description>
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		<title>When Needles Dislodge, Dialysis Can Turn Deadly</title>
		<link>http://studentdoctor.net/2010/11/when-needles-dislodge-dialysis-can-turn-deadly/</link>
		<comments>http://studentdoctor.net/2010/11/when-needles-dislodge-dialysis-can-turn-deadly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WildWing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 40 years after Congress created a unique entitlement for patients with kidney failure, U.S. death rates and per-patient costs are among the world's highest while the biggest for-profit providers flourish.  Provided by ProPublica.]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Cost Control Is Hard, And Humbling</title>
		<link>http://studentdoctor.net/2010/11/health-care-cost-control-is-hard-and-humbling/</link>
		<comments>http://studentdoctor.net/2010/11/health-care-cost-control-is-hard-and-humbling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WildWing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think you have an effective solution for controlling health care costs?  Don't bet on it.  Provided by Kaiser Health News.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>3 States To Vote On Health Insurance Mandate</title>
		<link>http://studentdoctor.net/2010/10/3-states-to-vote-on-health-insurance-mandate/</link>
		<comments>http://studentdoctor.net/2010/10/3-states-to-vote-on-health-insurance-mandate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WildWing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voters in Arizona, Colorado, and Oklahoma will vote Tuesday whether to prohibit enforcement of the individual health insurance mandate in the federal health care law.  Provided by Kaiser Health News.]]></description>
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