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	<title>Health Spectator &#187; health insurance</title>
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		<title>A health care reality check from Earl Blumenauer</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/08/a-health-care-reality-check-from-earl-blumenauer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Represetative Earl Blumenauer has posted an open letter to his fellow members of Congress over on Huffington Post. For your convenience, we&#8217;ve posted the text here: Senators who are filibustering and throwing sand in the gears to delay health care reform desperately need a reality check. It is ironic to me that members of Congress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public option out!</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/08/public-option-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instead, Medicare may open to those 55 and older In a surprise move to appease moderate Democrats, sources say the Obama health reform plan may drop the public option in favor of extending Medicare to the uninsured who are more than 55 years of age, the Associated Press is reporting. Currently, only those over 65 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Betsy McCaughey on healthcare reform and death panels</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/10/28/betsy-mccaughey-on-healthcare-reform-and-death-panels/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/10/28/betsy-mccaughey-on-healthcare-reform-and-death-panels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are three videos here, so be patient. The first is nominally a debate between Betsy McCaughey and Anthony Weiner, but moderator/interviewer Dylan Ratigan gets heavily involved. This debate starts out well enough, but it turns into a bit of a free-for-all when Dylan Ratigan refuses to let Betsy McCaughey ignore his question and go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We can afford bailouts; what about health care?</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/10/20/we-can-afford-bailouts-what-about-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/10/20/we-can-afford-bailouts-what-about-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=2759</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You may recall that approximately a year ago the nation was in the throes of a severe financial collapse and that the government&#8212;then the Bush administration&#8212;had taken upon itself to dole out billions in taxpayer monies to those deemed deserving: by which we mean giant corporations, not our taxpaying individual citizens. Among those recipients was [...]]]></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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		<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>Jay Leno and Bill Maher discuss health care</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/10/01/jay-leno-and-bill-maher-discuss-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Maher appears on Jay Leno on September 29, 2009. The conversation starts out with some Maher classic &#8220;new rules,&#8221; turns to talk of Obama, Sarah Palin and George W. Bush. Then they get &#8220;serious&#8221; with a discussion of health care, which is actually a good summation of the current dilemma facing us as the [...]]]></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>What is the best health care option?</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/14/what-is-the-best-health-care-option/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/14/what-is-the-best-health-care-option/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=2531</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve already heard what we have to say on this. If you missed it, check the list of related links, and you&#8217;ll surely get there. We&#8217;ve decided to put some other voices out there via video so you can watch or listen on your way to work or whenever. We don&#8217;t always agree entirely with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senator McCain and Joe Lieberman on public option</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/11/senator-mccain-and-joe-lieberman-on-public-option/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/11/senator-mccain-and-joe-lieberman-on-public-option/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=2533</guid>
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		<title>Obama brings back public option</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/10/obama-brings-back-public-option/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/10/obama-brings-back-public-option/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=2513</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just yesterday we wrote that Max Baucus (D-Mont) had finally circulated details of a Senate Finance Committee health care framework that would not include the so-called public option. Then, in his speech before a joint session of Congress last night, President Obama put the public option back on the table. To do otherwise would seem [...]]]></description>
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