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		<title><![CDATA[Health Care Reform: Who?s Paying to Shape It?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With billions of dollars at stake in health care reform, insurers, drugmakers, hospitals, and other big players are spending hundreds of millions to lobby Congress. Here?s what they want ? and what they?ve gotten so far. by Catherine Holahan]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft to buy healthcare software firm]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Microsoft is planning to acquire health software company Sentillion for an undisclosed sum. Microsoft aims to merge Sentillion's single-sign technology with its own Amalga Unified Intelligence System to offer doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers streamlined access to patient data from a range of sources.    ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:09:09 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Healthcare Roundup: Aetna Slammed by Senate Committee, $600M for Community Centers, Nurses Unite, NJ Court Boosts ASCs and More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roundup of healthcare news by Ken Terry]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:23:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Industry Has Influence In Reform Bill's Research Institute]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate reform bill would establish a comparative effectiveness research institute that would be heavily influenced by the healthcare industry. by Ken Terry]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:20:11 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[UPDATED: Merck Wants No Public Option in Healthcare Reform]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Management at Merck MRK recently hosted a visit from analysts at Leerink Swann, where they discussed the company's position on healthcare reform. Merck supports President Obama's reform effort except for one thing -- the company doesn't want to see the public option happen. by Jim Edwards]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:27:18 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Conservatives Spread Rumor That Healthcare Reform Mandates Microchip Implants]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservative fringe wingnuts are spreading false rumors that the healthcare reform bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives contains a requirement that microchips be implanted in Americans before they can receive healthcare. To hear the extremists tell it, "This sort of device would be implanted in the majority of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:40:52 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pfizer Blasted in Canada for $780K CME Program]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pfizer PFE can't catch a break in Canada right now. It's being blasted for a C$780,000 continuing medical education program it has set up through the Canadian Medical Association. Critics believe that doctor education should not be influenced by drug companies, which have a different set of interests than patients....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:51:55 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jobless Face Huge Hike in Health Premiums; Seven Steps to Dodge the Threat]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Millions of jobless Americans face a huge hike in health insurance premiums because of the expiration of a COBRA subsidy that was created last February. The subsidy could be extended, but experts say you should consider a contingency plan, if you want to keep your health insurance affordable. by Kathy...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:23:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[McDonald's COO Alvarez to Retire, Cites Health]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lisa BaertleinLOS ANGELES (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - McDonald's Corp MCD Chief Operating Officer Ralph Alvarez, who was widely believed to be in line for the fast-food chain's top job, will retire on December 31 due to health reasons, the company said on Tuesday."Seven orthopedic surgeries and years of chronic pain culminating...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:45:45 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[HCF Lifts Membership By 20%]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Australia's third largest private health insurer HCF says annual revenue soared by 20 per cent in 2008/09, on the back of strong membership growth.The fund said it had defied tough economic conditions in the private health insurance market during the last financial year, which were driven by the global...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:13:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Healthcare Industry Has an Amazing Decade]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Healthcare companies racked up amazing margins in the past decade, and reform is unlikely to slow them down. by Ken Terry]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:07:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Stop the Anti-Anti-Aging Tax Now or Suffer Wrinkles]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/consumer-reporter/stop-the-anti-anti-aging-tax-now-or-suffer-wrinkles/431/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="attachment_435" align="alignright" width="243" caption="Our future if we don&#39;t stop the botax"][/caption]    Buried in the Senate's health care bill is a provision that will slap a 5% excise tax on plastic surgery and other cosmetic procedures including tummy tucks,Â botox injections,Â face lifts, nose bobs and even teeth-whitening.(The law...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:27:05 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Better Management is Key for Health Reform]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/harvard/?p=4591]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Good management practices can help improve health care delivery and reduce costs as much as any Washington D.C. reform now under discussion. by Sean Silverthorne]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:12:41 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sanofi's Viehbacher Backs Health Reform; May Change Company's Name]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/10005468/sanofis-viehbacher-backs-health-reform-may-change-companys-name/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Sanofi-Aventis SNY CEO Chris Viehbacher says he favors healthcare reform in the U.S. because having more people with prescription drug coverage will lead to greater revenues. The statement is a rare example of common sense from asenior pharmaceutical executive on the issue. by Jim Edwards]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:37:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Healthcare Roundup: Aetna Layoffs, Lakeside Absorbed, ASCs Rake in Profits, Retail Clinics Forecast to Grow, and More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Latest roundup of healthcare news. by Ken Terry]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:42:14 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Peter Pitts' CMPI Targeted Over Anti-Healthcare Reform Video Game]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/10005443/peter-pitts-cmpi-targeted-over-anti-healthcare-reform-video-game/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest is a "corporate front group" that sponsored the near-riots at town hall meetings on healthcare and spreads misinformation about healthcare reform, according to a report by ThinkProgress, a liberal blogging group. It even produced an anti-reform video game, "Super Race to the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:39:06 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[World Taking Free Ride On America's Healthcare Innovations]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/intercom/?p=3310]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When these innovations can be controlled and patented, as is often the case with new drugs, then American companies and our broader economy both benefit overall.  But many investments in innovation, such as long-term health studies, end up as global public goods.  We pay the price to figure...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:48:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Managing Health Care Costs With Accountability]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1197229]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the fact that revenue growth has been slowing down for many companies in this economic downturn, costs of health care continue to accelerate and are expected to climb up by another 9% in 2010. While the average healthcare expenditure of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD countries, most...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Local Lead-Gen Platform AppointmentCity.com Raises Angel Round]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ AppointmentCity.com has raised an $800,000 angel round of funding for its online appointment-setting and lead generation platform, per an SEC filing. CEO Sherwin Krug said the money came from a group of private investors, including O4 Corporation CEO Desmond Miller; the startup will use the money to continue building...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:25:45 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tongjitang Chinese Medicines Co. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator  Operator instructions. We'll go first to Katherine Lu of Oppenheimer. Unidentified Analyst Good morning, this is inaudible calling for Katherine Lu from Oppenheimer. Congratulation on inclusion of Xianling Gubao into the essential drug list. Looks like this is the only drug that is included in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:54:07 -0800</pubDate>
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