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		<title>My Solution to the Healthcare Cost Crisis</title>
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		<description>Heathcare Reform think-tank, Shupe Center for Healthcare Cost Reform identifies and provides innovative, practical, alternative solutions to the current US healthcare cost crisis and establish long-term vehicles to support future innovation and quality in healthcare. Contributors come from every vocation touching the financing and delivery of healthcare.</description>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Recreational Drugs FAR Less Likely to Kill You than Prescribed Drugs! ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ While approximately 10,000 per year die from the effects of illegal drugs, an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that an estimated 106,000 hospitalized patients die each year from drugs which, by medical standards, are properly prescribed and properly administered. More than two million suffer serious side effects.... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Medical Loss Ratio - into the wind ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ Recent Article Published in the Self Insured Institute of America by Bob Shupe... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Health-Insurance Market Moves Ahead in California ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.shupecenter.com/custpage.cfm/sec_id/48260/news_id/15208</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ California passed legislation creating a health-insurance marketplace, a move set to be echoed across the country as states take steps to implement federal law. Millions of Americans around the U.S. are expected to eventually purchase their coverage through such exchanges, which will offer health plans to individuals and some small businesses. ... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Proposed federal regulations bother rural hospitals ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., met Wednesday with nearby rural hospital heads and a federal health care agency representative about proposed laws that would require more physician oversight for various procedures. Jonathan Blum, with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, came to the state to gather feedback on a proposal that would require doctors to oversee other health care professionals who administer injections, transfusions and other procedures&#160; if those hospitals are seeking to be reimbursed through Medicare.... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Dear Patients: Vote to Repeal ObamaCare ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ Facing a nationwide backlash, Democratic congressional candidates have a new message for voters: We know you don't like ObamaCare, so we'll fix it. This was the line offered by Democrat Mark Critz, who won a special election in Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district after expressing opposition to the law and promising to mend itbut not to repeal it. As a doctor I know something about unexpected recoveries, and this latest attempt to rescue ObamaCare from repeal needs to be taken seriously.
To counter this election-year ruse, my colleagues and I at Docs4PatientCare are enlisting thousands of doctors in an unorthodox and unprecedented action. Our patients have always expected a certain standard of care from their doctors, which includes providing them with pertinent information that may affect their quality of life. Because the issue this election is so starkliterally life and death for millions of Americans in the years aheadwe are this week posting a "Dear Patient" letter in ou... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Audit: Mass. may be losing millions on MRI s ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.shupecenter.com/custpage.cfm/sec_id/48260/news_id/15211</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ State Auditor Joseph DeNucci has released a report saying Massachusetts may be losing millions in Medicaid dollars covering the cost of unneeded imaging services like MRIs. DeNucci said on Wednesday that the state lacks safeguards against possible conflicts of interest from doctors who refer patients to facilities where they have a financial interest.... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Thirty Million New Patients - Sorry, Nothing Available ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.shupecenter.com/custpage.cfm/sec_id/48260/news_id/15099</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Finally something about delivery, not finance. Before you read this turn off all other forms of media. You should not be distracted.... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ There will be more competition - where you ask ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.shupecenter.com/custpage.cfm/sec_id/48260/news_id/15100</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Health Reforms greatest cry is that it will lower costs and increase competition. This article demonstrates the reforms ability to drive competition away and increase the size of a few insurers to the magical plateau of &quot;too big to fail.&quot;... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ You Have To Read This One ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.shupecenter.com/custpage.cfm/sec_id/48260/news_id/15019</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ The language is direct and instead of 3,000 pages the bill could be printed on a 3X5 index card. What is it called? S.3653 -- Health Care Bureaucrats Elimination Act... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Massachusetts law - the example? ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.shupecenter.com/custpage.cfm/sec_id/48260/news_id/15020</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ The state&rsquo;s largest health insurer managed to cut its second-quarter losses, thanks to investment gains, after a financially painful rate-hike battle with regulators. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts yesterday posted a net loss of $14.3 million in the April-to-June period, an improvement over last year&rsquo;s $33.6 million loss.... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Where There is Smoke - there is likely an AK-47 ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.shupecenter.com/custpage.cfm/sec_id/48260/news_id/15022</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ True or false: The new health care law will cut Medicare benefits for seniors. It will slash Medicare payments to doctors. It will ration health care.In three polls conducted last month, large percentages of Americans answered &quot;true&quot; to each statement. All three are false.... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Insurance Exchanges - Rub the lamp Real Hard ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.shupecenter.com/custpage.cfm/sec_id/48260/news_id/15021</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Years into the colossal debate about how to reach the millions of people without health insurance, all the talk is turning into something real in Colorado conference rooms packed with insurance executives, advocates for the sick and disabled, and average folks who want better care. They are the brains behind one of the most complicated tasks in national reform: building a state insurance exchange.... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Health Care Continues to Wound Democrats ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.shupecenter.com/custpage.cfm/sec_id/48260/news_id/14964</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ At the time President Barack Obama signed the health care overhaul in March, polls showed the legislation was unpopular with the American people. The White House told naysayers that public sentiment would become more favorable and turn out to be a political plus for Democrats this fall. Democrats would &ldquo;be able to campaign proudly&rdquo; on the legislation, White House senior aide David Axelrod said at the time. These days, Democrats are doing it with some trepidation and, depending on their districts, at some risk.... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Insurance commissioners weigh medical loss ratio definitions ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.shupecenter.com/custpage.cfm/sec_id/48260/news_id/14965</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ A new draft document outlines some of the outstanding issues state insurance commissioners need to resolve concerning the medical loss ratio. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners begins its annual meeting in Seattle this week, and one of its highest-profile tasks will be defining what should count as medical care and what shouldn't.... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Missouri vote repudiates health care law ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.shupecenter.com/custpage.cfm/sec_id/48260/news_id/14878</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ More than four months after pushing through President Obama's health care legislation, Democrats said Missouri voters who overwhelmingly rejected the new law still don't know enough about it. &quot;Once you explain what's in this bill, the American people, of course, like it,&quot; said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat.... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Voters in Missouri Oppose Health Law ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.shupecenter.com/custpage.cfm/sec_id/48260/news_id/14879</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a measure intended to nullify the new federal health care law, becoming the first state in the nation where ordinary people made known their dismay over the issue at the ballot box.... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Missouri vote puts health care back in crosshairs ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.shupecenter.com/custpage.cfm/sec_id/48260/news_id/14880</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON &ndash; Missouri voters' overwhelming opposition to requiring nearly all Americans to buy health insurance puts one of the least popular parts of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law back in the political crosshairs.
Even if the vote sets no legally binding precedent, it will help mobilize foes of Obama's agenda in the fall midterm elections, and that could make a difference in some states with close congressional races that could decide the balance of power in Washington.... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ In Defense of "Unelected Bureaucrats ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.shupecenter.com/custpage.cfm/sec_id/48260/news_id/14881</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ The effort to repeal health care reform, all in one fell swoop, seems to be stalling. Instead, the opponents of reform are trying to dismantle it piece by piece.... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Great Uncertainty on Medicare Cuts ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ Top administration officials say that the Obama health care law has dramatically improved Medicare's finances.&nbsp; &quot;Medicare's Hospital Insurance Trust Fund is now expected to remain solvent until 2029, 12 years longer than was projected last year,&quot; says Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.&nbsp;
Source: Jim Angle, &quot;Great Uncertainty on Medicare Cuts,&quot; Fox News, August 5, 2010.&nbsp;... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ The Effect of Health Insurance Coverage on the Use of Medical Services ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ The authors estimate that if the United States adopted universal health insurance coverage and there were sufficient capacity, there would likely be an increase in hospital stays of roughly 3.8 million per year and in emergency room visits of approximately 13.1 million per year.... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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