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		<title>Keep your insurance? Ask locked-out employees in Boron</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Empathetic souls will find the full version of this article to be  very tough reading. When the 560 wage earners unanimously rejected the  demands of Rio Tinto to give up much of their job security, the company  terminated all of them in a job lockout. The impact on their small  community of Boron is devastating.]]></description>
		<link>http://pnhp.org/blog/2010/03/18/keep-your-insurance-ask-locked-out-employees-in-boron/</link>
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		<title>Sen. Snowe&#8217;s policy advisor: Single payer in a decade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[William Pewen expresses the view of the majority of well informed  moderates and conservatives: The likely eventual outcome of further  deterioration in health care financing will be a single payer system,  like it or not.]]></description>
		<link>http://pnhp.org/blog/2010/03/17/sen-snowes-policy-advisor-single-payer-in-a-decade/</link>
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		<title>In Arizona, conservatives target single-payer health reform with deceptive referendum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stealth group, backed by drug and insurance companies, selects Arizona as testing ground for ballot initiative campaign against Medicare for All, government mandates]]></description>
		<link>http://pnhp.org/blog/2010/03/16/in-arizona-conservatives-target-single-payer-health-reform-with-deceptive-referendum/</link>
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		<title>Massachusetts hospital spending  out of control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to reduce this complex 211 page report on the very  high level of spending by Massachusetts' hospitals into a few  paragraphs, but the title and subtitle alone deliver the dominant  messages. For those who would like more insight without reading the full  report, there is an excellent 30 page summary at the beginning the  report.]]></description>
		<link>http://pnhp.org/blog/2010/03/16/massachusetts-hospital-spending-out-of-control/</link>
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		<title>Do premiums correlate with  actuarial values?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An important finding in this Watson Wyatt report is that the premium  paid for a private insurance plan has a very poor correlation with the  percentage of medical expenses that are paid by that plan on average, as  represented by the actuarial value. In this list from 2006, a plan that  paid 86% of the medical expenses had a premium of $194, whereas another  plan that paid 44% of expenses had a premium of $298.]]></description>
		<link>http://pnhp.org/blog/2010/03/15/do-premiums-correlate-with-actuarial-values/</link>
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		<title>The “public option” and the wheelbarrow parable: Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The “public option” and the wheelbarrow parable: Part 3
By Kip Sullivan, JD
In the second part of this three-part series, I reviewed the evidence indicating the “public option” campaign as well as “option” proponents in Congress refused to adopt criteria that would have guaranteed that the “option” would be large enough to survive competition with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pnhp.org/blog/2010/03/13/wheelbarrow-parable-part-3/</link>
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		<title>Grayson&#8217;s &#8220;Public Option Act&#8221; or  &#8220;Medicare You Can Buy Into Act&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the reform process members of Congress have been fighting  over whether or not the reform legislation should include the option of  purchasing a government-sponsored plan through the proposed insurance  exchanges - the so-called "public option." Since Congressman Alan  Grayson introduced the "Public Option Act" or "Medicare You Can Buy Into  Act" three days ago, a wave of enthusiastic support has been generated  based on the perception that this is the perfect solution. Today's  comment briefly discusses this legislation, and it will sound really  great at first blush, but do not draw any firm conclusions until you  read through to the end.]]></description>
		<link>http://pnhp.org/blog/2010/03/12/graysons-public-option-act-or-medicare-you-can-buy-into-act/</link>
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		<title>Republicans deny facts on  uninsured, but don&#8217;t care anyway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the failure of the Clinton effort at reform there has been an  intense campaign by innumerable entities to educate the nation on the  problems with our health care system and the potential impact of the  various solutions. The results of the surveys reported in this Health  Affairs article are sobering, if not depressing.]]></description>
		<link>http://pnhp.org/blog/2010/03/11/republicans-deny-facts-on-uninsured-but-dont-care-anyway/</link>
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		<title>Effective comparative effectiveness research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rather than using excerpts from the JAMA article by Hochman and  McCormick as today's qotd, their op-ed in today's Los Angeles Times  provides an even better summary of their findings along with their  astute comments.  Their op-ed obviates the need for me to provide any  additional commentary.]]></description>
		<link>http://pnhp.org/blog/2010/03/10/effective-comparative-effectiveness-research/</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;public option&#8221; and the wheelbarrow parable (Part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The “public option” and the wheelbarrow parable: Part 2
By Kip Sullivan JD
It is way past time for “public option” advocates to take a stand either for or against an insurance industry bailout.
Do “option” advocates support the individual mandate in the Democrats’ legislation (a requirement that all uninsured Americans buy health insurance from the bloated insurance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pnhp.org/blog/2010/03/09/wheelbarrow-parable-part-2/</link>
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