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		<title>Daryl Hannah arrested in demonstration at White House</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2011/09/01/daryl-hannah-arrested-in-tar-sands-demonstration-in-front-of-white-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, August 30 actress and activist Daryl Hanna was arrested in front of the White House for sitting in against the Keystone XL oil pipeline. That pipeline, if built, would transport oil from Alberta, Canada&#8217;s tar sands fields to Texas at the Gulf of Mexico. What does that have to do with our health? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear energy and your health</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2011/03/24/nuclear-energy-and-your-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Manhattan Project]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=3255</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of us, no doubt, choose to ignore what&#8217;s going on in Japan whether because it&#8217;s too much to bear or because we just don&#8217;t care. But for the rest of us, whether we are glued to the TV for the latest update or following it at a distance, the ordeal befalling so much of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When is cream not cream?</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2011/02/24/when-is-cream-not-cream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food/nutrition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organic food]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=3214</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cream has never struck me as a relative term. But recently, I came to realize that it is. I&#8217;m talking about the cream that floats on the top of cow&#8217;s milk. As it comes from the cow, milk readily separates into milk and cream. The cream rises to the top. But you already knew that. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maher urges President to stand up for healthcare reform</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/10/17/maher-urges-obama-to-stand-up-for-healthcare-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/10/17/maher-urges-obama-to-stand-up-for-healthcare-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=2707</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Make the U.S. the envy of several African nations,&#8221; he says Whether you agree with him or not, you have to admit that Bill Maher is the master of acerbic whit and political satire. Here he displays his growing irritation with Obama&#8217;s apparent laissez-faire attitude toward right-wing Republicans and the inroads they have made against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health care workers nix flu shots</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/10/02/2628/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/10/02/2628/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The things they try to slip past you. We were catching up on our reading in the general press, in particular reading a piece in the New York Times about New York state requiring its health care workers to get both seasonal and swine flu vaccines, which has the unions of the health workers up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More discussion of the public option for healthcare</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/19/more-discussion-of-the-public-option-for-healthcare/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/19/more-discussion-of-the-public-option-for-healthcare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=2588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This first video, a brief excerpt from a roundtable discussion, focuses on the public option in healthcare. In it, first Robert Reich says a few words, then Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman tells us what&#8217;s behind the resistance to the public option in the Senate. Then in the clip below that, Robert Reich, who is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Food</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/09/the-future-of-food/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/09/the-future-of-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farming/food manufacture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=2505</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This excellent video combines many of the themes we have discussed here at Health Spectator. We have warned about the dangers of genetic modification (The allure of genetic modification) and extolled the virtues of organic and locally grown foods. All in all, the movie gives excellent coverage of the range of issues (political, economic, social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep your government hands off my Medicare!</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/06/keep-your-government-hands-off-my-medicare/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/06/keep-your-government-hands-off-my-medicare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=2243</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Or, what are our health care options, anyway? In July 2009, an angry constituent confronted Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) at a town hall meeting. &#8220;Keep your government hands off my Medicare!&#8221; the man demanded. Inglis tried as he could to explain that Medicare was and had been from the beginning a government program, but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Republican health care reform plan</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/04/the-republican-health-care-reform-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/04/the-republican-health-care-reform-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AlisoninRome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Sarkisyan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wendell Potter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=2372</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[putting down the notion of a public option can backfire even in a conservative state like Kansas. It's funny how people are beginning to catch on that maybe they do, after all, deserve health care.]]></description>
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		<title>Real choice in health care</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/08/28/real-choice-in-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/08/28/real-choice-in-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=2188</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The meaningful choice in health care isn't about the insurance plan, because that's all about how you pay. It's about who treats you and where you go for treatment. ]]></description>
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