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	<title>Crikey &#187; health reform</title>
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		<title>What happened to the vision for primary healthcare reform?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2011/10/10/health-reform-in-whose-interests-and-what-happened-to-the-vision-for-primary-healthcare-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2011/10/10/health-reform-in-whose-interests-and-what-happened-to-the-vision-for-primary-healthcare-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many proponents of community health models are less than overjoyed by the way the proposed health reform changes have taken shape, even though some are potentially very valuable, writes <b>Lyn Morgain</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Gillard&#8217;s broken promise</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/07/gillards-broken-promise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/07/gillards-broken-promise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=251407</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A classic example of the blame game. The buck passing on public hospital funding is well and truly back. The Tasmanian government this week announced it would cut more than $60 million from its elective surgery budget over the next three years. That means, according to federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon, that the state risks [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The same old public hospital nonsense</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2011/10/04/the-same-old-public-hospital-nonsense/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2011/10/04/the-same-old-public-hospital-nonsense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember all that federal Labor arty talk about finally fixing the financing of the public hospital system? Well, forget them. The first state to make a mockery of the new system was Tasmania, writes <b>Richard Farmer</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Give me a rebate, public hospitals need private health insurance</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/12/private-health-insurance-rebate-public-hospitals-need-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/12/private-health-insurance-rebate-public-hospitals-need-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 03:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the current rate of growth in hospital admissions in Australia continues, private hospitals can expect to be treating 50% of all hospital patients by 2021. Imagine if the public sector alone had to undertake all this work, writes <b>Michael Roff</b>, CEO of the Australian Private Hospitals Association.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Benefits of health reform will be in decades ahead</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/02/real-benefits-of-health-reform-package-will-be-in-decades-ahead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/02/real-benefits-of-health-reform-package-will-be-in-decades-ahead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dental health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government's health reform package is far less than originally conceived, but it will deliver long-term benefits. The real beneficiaries will be the taxpayers of the next three decades.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>Health reform: you wouldn’t wish it on a baby</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/23/health-reform-you-wouldn%e2%80%99t-wish-it-on-a-baby/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/23/health-reform-you-wouldn%e2%80%99t-wish-it-on-a-baby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Sweet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nhs waiting lists]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If health reform was a baby, you’d have to say that it’s facing an exceedingly tough start to life.]]></description>
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		<title>Essential: Labor edges up, but voters rate Rudd as PM &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/21/essential-labor-edges-up-but-voters-rate-rudd-as-pm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/21/essential-labor-edges-up-but-voters-rate-rudd-as-pm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Labor has edged ahead in today's Essential report poll - but Julia Gillard doesn't compare favourably to her predecessor.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Health reform: does it go far enough?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2011/02/16/health-reform-does-it-go-far-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2011/02/16/health-reform-does-it-go-far-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=204236</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Business Council of Australia have released a report that argues for a more transformative health reform agenda and process than what has been on the table to date, reports <b>Melissa Sweet</b>. ]]></description>
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		<title>Health reform: where have we been and where are we headed?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/12/21/health-reform-where-have-we-been-and-where-are-we-headed/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/12/21/health-reform-where-have-we-been-and-where-are-we-headed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drawing breath after a very busy year, <b>Carol Bennett</b> from the <b>Consumers Health Forum</b> reflects on what has been achieved in health reform in Australia and what lies in store for the future. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>What we think of our health system</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2010/12/21/a-comprehensive-look-of-what-we-think-of-our-health-system/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2010/12/21/a-comprehensive-look-of-what-we-think-of-our-health-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month the Menzies Centre for Health Policy released a survey measuring Australian perceptions of our health system. A number of the same questions were asked in a 2008 survey and contrasting the responses reveals how Australian opinion has changed, writes <b>Possum Comitatus</b>. 
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		<title>Health reform efforts &#8230; and the verdict is &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/21/health-reform-efforts-and-the-verdict-is/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/21/health-reform-efforts-and-the-verdict-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 02:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=194218</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[CHF has welcomed the deal between the government and Medicines Australia that will bring savings of $1.9 billion over four years, drive down the prices of some medicines, writes <b>Carol Bennett</b>, chief executive, Consumers Health Forum
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		<title>What do Australians really think of our health system?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/12/07/what-do-australians-really-think-of-our-health-system-not-quite-what-the-minister-told-you/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/12/07/what-do-australians-really-think-of-our-health-system-not-quite-what-the-minister-told-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Buckmaster</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aged care]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minister Nicola Roxon was quick to trumpet the findings of a recent survey into perceptions of our health system as evidence of supposed widespread support. However, she neglected to mention concerns many people have regarding aged care, writes <b>Melissa Sweet</b>. ]]></description>
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		<title>Changing political landscape means changes to health reform</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/02/changing-political-landscape-means-changes-to-health-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/02/changing-political-landscape-means-changes-to-health-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new Victorian Liberal government, like the old Victorian Labor government, is a major player in Australia’s health reforms, writes <b>Paul Dugdale</b>, director of the ANU Centre for Health Stewardship.]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond hospital bed tallies: how about some innovation?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/11/19/beyond-hospital-bed-tallies-lets-hear-about-some-innovation-in-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/11/19/beyond-hospital-bed-tallies-lets-hear-about-some-innovation-in-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>f79</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=187193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to most media coverage, health reform is all about having more hospital beds and more doctors. The debate of course extends a lot further than that, and some answers for Australia could be found in the US health care system, writes <b>Dr Lesley Russell</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>What might a Coalition government mean for health reform?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/08/25/what-might-a-coalition-government-mean-for-health-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/08/25/what-might-a-coalition-government-mean-for-health-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=167717</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a distinct possibility that a huge amount of effort and resources invested in health care reform will end up in the dustbin under a Coalition government. <em> Croakey</em> compiles a list of what we can expect to be ditched. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/08/25/what-might-a-coalition-government-mean-for-health-reform/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>Your guide to the health/aged care reforms</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/06/17/struggling-to-make-sense-of-healthaged-care-reform-help-is-here/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/06/17/struggling-to-make-sense-of-healthaged-care-reform-help-is-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=146717</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>Melissa Sweet</b> offers a rather brutal summary of health reforms: a lot of money is being spent for most uncertain outcomes, while reforms seem to benefit the pharmaceutical industries more than the public purse.]]></description>
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		<title>Health: Will Budget announcements be a circuit breaker?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/12/health-will-budget-announcements-be-a-circuit-breaker/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/12/health-will-budget-announcements-be-a-circuit-breaker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 03:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mental health and dental health were the clear losers last night. But will the other health announcements be a circuit breaker for the government?  <em><a href="http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey">Croakey</a></em>'s <b>Melissa Sweet</b> wraps the commentary.]]></description>
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		<title>Health Budget 2010: What the experts say</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/12/health-budget-2010-what-the-experts-say/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/12/health-budget-2010-what-the-experts-say/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 02:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Sweet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Budget 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Budget 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care policy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=138072</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>Croakey</em> wraps reactions to last night's Budget from Australia's health experts and community, covering everything from dental policy (or the lack of it), primary health care and alcohol policy and prevention.]]></description>
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		<title>Are we going back to the 1960s in mental health?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/05/11/are-we-going-back-to-the-1960s-in-mental-health/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/05/11/are-we-going-back-to-the-1960s-in-mental-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 01:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Health Department may be able to write a chook raffle policy, but it has few employees with much experience of running health services, and too many decision-making generic career bureaucrats without any clinical background, says psychiatrist <b>Alan Rosen</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Keane: a big bucket of cash for a small step to reform</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/21/keane-a-big-bucket-of-cash-for-a-small-step-to-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/21/keane-a-big-bucket-of-cash-for-a-small-step-to-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COAG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin Barnett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Brumby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public hospital reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=132206</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The health deal yesterday is a useful economic reform, but won't do much for health outcomes. And it costs plenty. Every COAG meeting, the price of buying off the states seems to go up, partly because Kevin Rudd is so willing to pay.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/21/keane-a-big-bucket-of-cash-for-a-small-step-to-reform/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>A &#8216;planned negotiation process&#8217; &#8212; so that&#8217;s what it was&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/21/crikey-says-a-planned-negotiation-process-so-thats-what-it-was/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/21/crikey-says-a-planned-negotiation-process-so-thats-what-it-was/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicola Roxon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public hospital reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=132158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So that's that whole health reform deal was. A "planned negotiation process" that started and ended with posturing by premiers who needed to appear macho to their constituencies.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/21/crikey-says-a-planned-negotiation-process-so-thats-what-it-was/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>States stick it up Rudd</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/20/health-reform-middle-class-welfare-via-a-blast-from-the-past/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/20/health-reform-middle-class-welfare-via-a-blast-from-the-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brumby vs Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COAG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristina Keneally]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public hospital reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[welfare]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=131952</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All those commitments Kevin Rudd is making to the states to buy their support for health reform will add up to more middle-class welfare. Whoever wins out of this, taxpayers will be the losers.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/20/health-reform-middle-class-welfare-via-a-blast-from-the-past/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>How voters feel about state governments: it&#8217;s not healthy respect</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/20/how-voters-feel-about-state-governments-its-not-healthy-respect/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/20/how-voters-feel-about-state-governments-its-not-healthy-respect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QLD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public hospital reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state governments]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=131901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Voters' attitudes towards their state governments vary considerably, depending on how they handle important issues. But everyone agrees they don't handle health well.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/20/how-voters-feel-about-state-governments-its-not-healthy-respect/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Do we still need state govts?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/19/what%e2%80%99s-at-stake-today-maybe-a-lot-more-than-health-or-kevin-rudd%e2%80%99s-election-prospects/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/19/what%e2%80%99s-at-stake-today-maybe-a-lot-more-than-health-or-kevin-rudd%e2%80%99s-election-prospects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brumby vs Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COAG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public hospital reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=131425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It isn’t the GST that should make the premiers fear the “thin end of the wedge”; the entire purpose of their existence is in question.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/19/what%e2%80%99s-at-stake-today-maybe-a-lot-more-than-health-or-kevin-rudd%e2%80%99s-election-prospects/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>60</slash:comments>
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		<title>Remember us? We’re called nurses</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/19/remember-us-we%e2%80%99re-called-nurses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/19/remember-us-we%e2%80%99re-called-nurses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[COAG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nurses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public hospital reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=131428</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nurses are the people who will be critical to achieving health reform on the ground, since doctors aren't alone in providing front-line health care, writes mental health nurse <b>Kim Ryan</b>. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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