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		<title><![CDATA[Qteros, Applied CleanTech to Harness Power of Poo to Make Ethanol]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qteros and Applied CleanTech are giving new life to municipal wastewater solids -- a cleaned up term for what most of us call poo -- by turning it into fuel for cars. Yes, poo-powered cars may be in our future.    That future may still be a ways...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:38:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Small Mass. Firms Still Seeking Affordable Insurance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/healthcare/10001156/small-mass-firms-still-seeking-affordable-insurance/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When Massachusetts passed its landmark healthcare reform law in 2006, some observers expected that it would lead to a drop in employer-provided coverage, especially among small firms, because the legislated penalty for not providing insurance--$295 per worker per year-was much lower than the cost of coverage. But this has not...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:57:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Your Guide to Health Care Reform]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How health care reform plays out is just as significant for your wallet as it is for the quality of your medical care. Here are the issues to pay close attention to. Health care reform has dominated the news for weeks, and yet with so many proposals on the table...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Health Care Reform: Stop Focusing on the Cost]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts? existing universal health care plan has  become a prototype for current reform proposals now in Congress. But Jonathan  Gruber, a key architect of the program, says to make federal reform work,  Congress needs to give up trying to control costs for now.    ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Data Privacy Rules Coming as Massachusetts Trumps the Feds]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A privacy bill under consideration in Washington would significantly impact retail through provisions that would spell out how companies would have to protect customer data and what they must do if information is compromised, yet, as worrisome as that might be for some, any concern is essentially moot because a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:10:56 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Insurance Is Not The Same as Healthcare Access]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little canary is tweeting in the coal mine of Massachusetts. Despite the availability of supposedly affordable insurance in that state, increasing numbers of its insured citizens are calling patient-assistance hotlines. They say they are having trouble paying their medical bills and are not getting the care they need. That...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:01:04 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is There Life After Office?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attempts by several state governments to dump Microsoft Office have died quiet deaths because of internecine squabbles within the open source community, a testament to vendor greed and a depressing reminder that the public interest often takes a back seat to moneyed interests.    In 2005, the Commonwealth...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:19:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Miami Insurance Experiment Wins Provider Concessions]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miami-Dade County, one of the most expensive healthcare markets in the country, has teamed up with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida in an effort to lower the number of Miamiâ€™s uninsured, who include an estimated 600,000 people. The Florida Blues is offering a new health plan, Miami-Dade Blue, that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 15:58:10 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Massachusetts Bites Off More Than It Can Chew]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/healthcare/1000631/massachusetts-bites-off-more-than-it-can-chew/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, Massachusetts is pointing the way toward a possible model for national healthcare reformâ€"but one that most healthcare providers would have a hard time swallowing. To reduce costs that are rising at 8 percent annually, a state commission will soon recommend that insurance companies pay hospitals and physicians a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 11:55:18 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Massachusetts Needs to Deal With Primary Care Crisis]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the national healthcare reform debate revs up, thereâ€™s lots of discussion about the Massachusetts reform experiment, which includes a mandate for all state residents to buy insurance. According to the state, its effort has reduced the number of uninsured to 2.6 percent of the population, partly through subsidies to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:35:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[GSK to Stop Political Donations ... Or Not]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[GlaxoSmithKline is to "voluntarily stop" its direct political contributions to U.S. elected officials. The move is a continuation of CEO Andrew Witty's attempt to transform his company's image from the angry-political-string-puller role it adopted earlier this year in Massachusetts to the kindler-gentler-more-transparent company that this move represents.   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:17:42 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Defense Budget Good to Massachusetts]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Globe reports that Massachusetts is one of the biggest winners of Federal dollars.  Much of this is attributed to large weapons systems that Raytheon, General Dynamics and General Electric manufacture.  The article illustrates how dependent the US economy is on the defense budget.  Of interest,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:00:42 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[UMassOnline Wins 2008 Public Sector Technology Leadership Award]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2008_Oct_28/ai_n30939941]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Other Public Sector Finalists in the Mass Technology Council Award Program included the City of Boston, BostonFIRST, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center  UMassOnline Recognized for Leadership and Excellence in Business and Technology  SHREWSBURY, Mass. -- UMassOnline Chief Executive Officer David Gray announced today that UMassOnline has been...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[State Street Named to Dow Jones Sustainability Index for Third Consecutive Year]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honored as Massachusetts' Top Charitable Contributor  BOSTON -- State Street Corporation, the world's leading provider of financial services to institutional investors, today announced that it has received several honors recognizing the company's commitment to corporate social responsibility and citizenship. For the third consecutive year, State Street qualified for both...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The New England Council Presents "New Englander of the Year" Awards]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- The leaders of two prominent New England institutions, along with one of its most effective and respected elected officials will be honored by The New England Council at its Annual Dinner on October 7, 2008 at the Seaport Hotel/World Trade Center in Boston.  Boston College Chancellor J....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Suffolk University and The Boston Globe Conduct Exclusive Poll on Financial Crisis]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bay State Residents Tightening Belts Amid Fears for Economy, but Still Spending More  BOSTON -- Bay State residents are taking a bleak view of the economy, a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll will reveal in tomorrow's Boston Sunday Globe. By nearly a 2-to-1 margin, Massachusetts residents say they believe...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Eli Lilly's Lechleiter Does Shameless U-turn on Payments to Doctors]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eli Lilly CEO John Lechleiter has done a spectacular about-face on the issue of disclosing the drug company's payments to doctors. Last week he was against it. Today he's suddenly in favor of it.    Let's be clear, Lechleiter is doing the right thing by creating "an online...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:35:32 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Provides Testimony at Senate Hearing in Washington]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2008_Sept_23/ai_n28576646]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Executive Vice President Andrew Dreyfus shares insights on Massachusetts Health Reform  BOSTON -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts' Executive Vice President Andrew Dreyfus testified today before a congressional committee that's examining potential options for reforming the health insurance market.  The Senate Finance Committee invited Blue Cross Blue...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lilly and GSK Emit Smoke, But No Fire, In Massachusetts Legal Flap]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eli Lilly CEO John Lechleiter pictured has joined the bizarre political pantomime surrounding the new Massachusetts law requiring drug companies to detail the payments they make to doctors. He told the Boston Business Journal:  Life sciences investment will be scared away ... [the law has the potential to] subject...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:12:27 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The New England Council Announces its 2008 "New Englander of the Year" Awards]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- The New England Council's Board of Directors unanimously voted to present the 2008 "New Englander of the Year" awards to Boston College Chancellor Reverend J. Donald Monan, S.J., Massachusetts Congressman Richard E. Neal, and CVS Caremark Corporation Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas M. Ryan. The awards...]]></description>
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