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		<title>Devaluing the Dollar by Trashing Private Health Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The main driver of the collapse of the dollar is the liquidity provided by the Fed at nominal interest rates, which invites a worldwide army of investors to short the dollar and buy foreign stocks and bonds. If the dollar continues to fall in value, these investors are effectively paid to borrow as long as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare industry needs IT jab</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This industry lags in IT adoption but a healthy dose of change is being administered. NOWADAYS, healthcare issues seem to be dominating the news. You read about the United States declaring a state of emergency due to the increasing number of Americans dying from H1N1 while there are reports of Malaysia and other countries also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baucus earns his healthcare industry funding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On &#8220;The Ed Show&#8221; Monday night I said Montana Sen. Max Baucus had to decide whether he represented Montana or the insurance industry. Tuesday he made his choice, voting against both public option amendments to the healthcare reform bill in the Senate Finance Committee. All the Democrats who voted against the public option should be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Health Care Agenda Arrives In Washington</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President George W. Bush spent his first year focused on education, culminating with the passage of the No Child Left Behind bill. Barack Obama appears poised to do the same with health care. Obama hasn&#8217;t laid out his plans, but one pillar has always been to expand the State Children&#8217;s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brianklepper.net/?p=3</link>
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		<title>Health care industry crisis looms for elderly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Too small and woefully unprepared — that&#8217;s how a new report from the Institute of Medicine characterizes the nation&#8217;s and California&#8217;s medical preparedness for the coming aging boom. The report, &#8220;Retooling of an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce,&#8221; said an &#8220;impending crisis&#8221; is looming as the growing number of 78 million older patients [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RFID people-tagging &#8216;benefits health sector&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The percentage of worldwide radio frequency identification (RFID) projects concerning tagging people has increased from eight percent to 11 percent over the last year, according to new research&#8211;with the healthcare sector set to see the benefits. Although privacy concerns have been aired over passports being RFID-tagged, let alone people, according to the report by RFID [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SiCKO Is Boffo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1971, Edgar Kaiser, the son of the founder of Kaiser Permanente, one of the first big HMOs, went to see John Ehrlichman, a top aide to President Nixon, to lobby the Nixon White House to pass legislation that would expand the market for health maintenance organizations (HMOs). Ehrlichman reported this conversation to Nixon on [...]]]></description>
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