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		<title>We support Obama’s choice to head Medicare</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2010/06/10/we-support-this-nominee-to-head-medicare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This press release explains why we have joined 90 organizations in supporting Dr. Donald Berwick, who is President Obama&#8217;s choice as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Click into the link to our letter of support at the end of this press release. Read what the New England Journal of Medicine has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=5716&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What about the negotiated drug discounts?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama just gave a powerful speech about health care reform, but notably absent was something crucial to people on Medicare—that is, giving the government the power to negotiate discounts for prescription drugs.  Other industrialized countries use the power of numbers to reduce their drug costs.  In our case, it would be the 44 million Medicare enrollees. The U.S. pharmaceutical industry would have us believe that the European countries are getting a free ride because our high drug costs are paying for innovation in new drugs, something that supposedly occurs only in the U.S. This view has gone unchallenged by the mainstream media.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=3029&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anemia drugs hasten death in some cancer patients</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/07/13/anti-anemia-drugs-increase-chances-of-death-for-some-cancer-patients/</link>
		<comments>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/07/13/anti-anemia-drugs-increase-chances-of-death-for-some-cancer-patients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For seven years Johnson &#38; Johnson ran fraudulent ads on prime time TV and in magazines with this recurring theme:  A cancer patient cannot continue working because of debilitating fatigue due to chemotherapy. The ads told people in similar circumstances to ask their doctors about Procrit, which always quickly put an end to the fatigue. There is no published evidence to support the cure-for-fatigue claim, according to a 2007 press briefing at the FDA.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=2753&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Malpractice Report Contradicts Conventional Wisdom</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/07/10/2423/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Center for Medical Consumers, working together with the New York Public Interest Research Group, has just released a report questioning the basis for the oft-repeated claim that “out of control” medical malpractice lawsuits are contributing to inflation in health care costs.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=2423&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harry and Louise Ad Campaign Revisited</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/07/08/2708/</link>
		<comments>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/07/08/2708/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Men's Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The health plans now before Congress indicate that the health insurance industry will continue to dictate your treatment decisions, ration care, and limit your choice of doctors. Furthermore, U.S. medical care is already rationed in the worst possible way—based on income.  All industrialized countries are grappling with the need for rationing based on cost-effectiveness (e.g., a treatment may be marginally effective but not worth the high cost — see cancer drug example below).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=2708&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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