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		<title>Harry and Louise Ad Campaign Revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>Health Care Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opponents of President Obama’s health reforms are not above misrepresenting the quality of health care in other countries. In my experience, critics of progressive efforts to reform health care are also quick to tout American medical care as “the best in the world.” They raise fears that the proposed reforms will make our health care “second rate.” Unfortunately, findings from studies comparing health outcomes like longevity and patient experiences in the U.S., U.K. and Europe tell us that our health care is already second rate.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=2684&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Critical Condition—How Health Care in America Became Big Business &amp; Bad Medicine</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2005/06/01/critical-condition%e2%80%94how-health-care-in-america-became-big-business-bad-medicine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. spends more on health care than other countries. In 2003, it accounted for 15.3% of the gross domestic product, a greater percentage than Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Canada, and other developed countries spend to cover all their citizens. What we are getting in return is a second rate health care system, according to Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, investigative reporters, formerly at the Philadelphia Inquirer and now editors at large for Time magazine. What kind of a health care system, they ask, leaves 44 million people without health insurance and tens of millions more underinsured?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=215&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Response to the Malpractice &#8220;Crises&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2002/12/31/consumer-response-to-the-malpractice-crises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2002 19:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Do No Harm: A Consumer Response to the Medical Lobby's Campaign to Limit the Legal Rights of Injured Patients<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=115&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Science Under Attack By Bush Administration</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2002/12/01/science-under-attack-by-bush-administration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2002 19:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times recently reported that drug makers "spent more than $30 million to help elect their allies to Congress" and are discussing ways "to turn that influence into legislative victories." And according to the Wall Street Journal, "Venture capitalists, long wary of the tortuous approval process for medical devices, say they hope they have found their white knight in the new U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner, Mark McClellan."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=130&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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