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		<title>Employers push higher health insurance costs onto workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Galewitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nationally, employees now pay an average of $3,997 as their share of the annual family health insurance premium — about $1,000 more than in 2006 and twice the 2001 amount.]]></description>
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		<title>Support slips for health reform law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie McGinley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poll found that 43 percent of Americans viewed the law favorably – down from 50 percent in July – while 45 percent held unfavorable views. But voters more concerned about economy than the new health law.]]></description>
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		<title>Regulators probe allegations of fraud in health credit cards</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some health providers are offering patients health-care credit cards to help pay for care. But some patients charge they've been swindled.]]></description>
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		<title>Health reform bad news for inefficient insurance companies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Cohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reform forces insurers to cover basic benefits, restricts their ability to mistreat consumers, and limits what they can spend on overhead: bad news for the inefficient.]]></description>
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		<title>Health care reform and the homeless</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McCarthy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medicaid expansion to cover more working poor. Funding to boost community health clinics. Incentives to encourage more to pursue primary care careers. ]]></description>
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		<title>What Washington, D.C. could learn from Washington State on health reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rep. Doug Ericksen and Dr. Roger Stark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story of 1993 Washington Health Services Act should serve as a cautionary tale.]]></description>
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		<title>View: New momentum behind electronic health records</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sec. Kathleen Sebelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the clear benefits of health IT, only two in ten doctors and one in ten hospitals use even a basic electronic record system.
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		<title>Plans will have to cover routine care of patients in trials</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past, some plans would refuse to pay the routine care of patients in clinical trials, arguing the treatments were experimental and therefore not covered. ]]></description>
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		<title>Slow start for plan to insure those with pre-existing conditions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Galewitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plans, although a better deal than anything comparable on the private market, still may be unaffordable for many. Eligibility requirements may be a barrier. 
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		<title>Colleges say new health law may imperil student policies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Appleby - KHN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colleges and universities say some rules in the new health law could keep them from offering low-cost, limited benefit student insurance policies.
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