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	<title>Crikey &#187; health insurance</title>
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		<title>Rundle: a win to Obama, but the Senate battle awaits</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/rundle-a-win-to-obama-but-the-senate-battle-awaits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Health Care Act 2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has won a victory in the health care campaign, the first serious universal health care bill to get through a House of Congress ever. But, his real test will be in the upper house.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Senate rebate vote a blow to cost-effective health policy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/10/senate-rebate-vote-a-blow-to-cost-effective-health-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/10/senate-rebate-vote-a-blow-to-cost-effective-health-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicola Roxon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private health insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Private health insurance is one of the most inefficient and expensive mechanisms for paying for health care. It's time to pension it off, writes health policy analyst <b>Jennifer Doggett</b>. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>What the private health insurance industry’s fear campaign is really about</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/15/what-the-private-health-insurance-industry%e2%80%99s-fear-campaign-is-really-about/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/15/what-the-private-health-insurance-industry%e2%80%99s-fear-campaign-is-really-about/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Health Insurance Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mediare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private health insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Rudd Government is actually increasing the incentives for high income earners to hold private insurance, writes <b>Ian McAuley</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>First item on Obama&#8217;s health reform agenda: get rid of fax machines</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/12/rundle-1st-item-on-obamas-health-reform-agenda-get-rid-of-the-fax-machines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/12/rundle-1st-item-on-obamas-health-reform-agenda-get-rid-of-the-fax-machines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama is charging into what will be one of the biggest stoushes in American politics -- his plan to reform the hopeless US health system.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Health insurance &#8220;reforms&#8221; entrench two-tier system</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/13/dont-believe-the-headlines-phi-reforms-entrench-two-tier-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/13/dont-believe-the-headlines-phi-reforms-entrench-two-tier-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 03:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medibank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare Levy Surcharge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whitlam government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to glib press reports, the Budget changes to private health insurance actually increase support for the industry, and do more to embed a two-tier health system, writes<b>Ian McAuley</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Budget countdown: health caught in a catch 22</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/16/budget-countdown-health-caught-in-a-catch-22/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/16/budget-countdown-health-caught-in-a-catch-22/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget Countdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal health policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IVF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justine Elliott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The more successful our health system, the longer Australians live -- and the longer they will need aged care services of all varieties.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Maternity health reform has harmed women (but not obstetricians)</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/19/maternity-health-reform-has-harmed-women-but-not-obstetricians/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/19/maternity-health-reform-has-harmed-women-but-not-obstetricians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospital crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweaks designed to improve our system have resulted in out of control costs, increased suffering and injury to women and infants, and obstetricians now expecting to earn a million dollars a year, write <b>Lesley Barclay, Sally Tracy and Sue Kildea</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Summit tale: I got picked for 2020 (but not in the cool group)</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/28/summit-tale-i-got-picked-for-2020-but-not-in-the-cool-group/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/28/summit-tale-i-got-picked-for-2020-but-not-in-the-cool-group/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2020 Summit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joshua gans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes down to it, I suspect that being an economist at this Summit is not the ‘cool’ area, writes <b>Joshua Gans</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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