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	<title>Health Affairs Blog &#187; 2010 &#187; November</title>
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		<title>Call For Papers On Health Care Quality</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/11/30/call-for-papers-on-health-care-quality/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=call-for-papers-on-health-care-quality</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health Affairs will publish a theme issue on health care quality in April 2011. The journal’s aim is to bring together the best current thinking on a range of topics related to quality and to highlight important trends, developments, and controversies. Health Affairs particularly wants to surface key issues or proposals for consideration by policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMA Conservatives Revolt Against The Individual Mandate</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/11/30/ama-conservatives-revolt-against-the-individual-mandate/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ama-conservatives-revolt-against-the-individual-mandate</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harris Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Republican drive to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act nearly got a surprise boost earlier this month from the American Medical Association, which up to now has provided valuable support for President Obama’s health care reform effort. At the AMA’s interim meeting on Nov. 9, conservatives within AMA’s House of Delegates won [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Policy Brief: Early Retiree Coverage</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/11/29/health-policy-brief-early-retiree-coverage/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=health-policy-brief-early-retiree-coverage</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation describes a new program to shore up health insurance coverage for early retirees—individuals 55 and older who have left employment and are not yet eligible for Medicare. The number of employers offering medical coverage for this group has declined during the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughtful Purchasing At CMS</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/11/24/thoughtful-purchasing-at-cms/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=thoughtful-purchasing-at-cms</link>
		<comments>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/11/24/thoughtful-purchasing-at-cms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Mendelson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Comparative Effectiveness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent press reports on Medicare’s decision to evaluate coverage policy for the new cancer therapy Provenge were highly critical of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and its role in examining the evidence behind FDA-approved products.  Let’s take a step back. In fact, this is exactly what CMS should be doing – carefully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Implementing Health Reform: Medical Loss Ratios</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/11/23/implementing-health-reform-medical-loss-ratios/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=implementing-health-reform-medical-loss-ratios</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy Jost</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s Note: The post below, on the &#8220;medical loss ratio&#8221; (MLR) rule issued yesterday by the Department of Health and Human Services, is the latest in a series of posts by Timothy Jost on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.  Earlier posts by Jost provide analyses of regulations and guidance implementing provisions of the Act governing health insurance exchanges, coverage for pre-existing conditions, appeals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mann, Ornstein To Speak At National Health Policy Conference</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/11/22/mann-ornstein-to-speak-at-national-health-policy-conference/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mann-ornstein-to-speak-at-national-health-policy-conference</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent elections completely changed the nation&#8217;s political landscape in Congress and elsewhere. As two of the nation&#8217;s most respected and insightful political analysts, Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution and Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute are well-suited to make sense of the new terrain; they are also two of the confirmed speakers for the 2011 National Health Policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Implementing Health Reform: Emerging Guidance On Insurance Exchanges</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/11/19/implementing-health-reform-emerging-guidance-on-insurance-exchanges/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=implementing-health-reform-emerging-guidance-on-insurance-exchanges</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy Jost</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthaffairs.org/blog/?p=8012</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s Note: This is the latest in a series of posts by Timothy Jost on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.  Earlier posts by Jost provide analyses of regulations implementing provisions of the Act governing coverage for pre-existing conditions, appeals of coverage denials, coverage for preventive services, a patient bill of rights, grandfathered plans, tax exempt hospitals, the small employer tax [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumers And Insurance: Experiences In Eleven Countries</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/11/18/consumers-and-insurance-experiences-in-eleven-countries/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=consumers-and-insurance-experiences-in-eleven-countries</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the United States begins implementing health reform, how does the U.S. experience compare with that of other high-income countries? To answer that question, The Commonwealth Fund conducted its thirteenth annual health policy survey, this year focusing on access, cost, and care experiences. The survey findings were published today in a Health Affairs Web First [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fiscal Commission Co-Chairs’ Health Proposals: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/11/18/the-fiscal-commission-co-chairs%e2%80%99-health-proposals-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-fiscal-commission-co-chairs%25e2%2580%2599-health-proposals-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Holtz-Eakin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The federal government’s unsustainable long-run fiscal picture has been outlined in successive versions of the Congressional Budget Office’s Long-Term Budget Outlook.  The policy problem is that spending rises above any reasonable level of taxation for the indefinite future.  As it currently stands, committed federal expenditures are expected to grow from 20 percent of gross domestic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berwick Finally Faces The Finance Committee &#8212; Briefly</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/11/17/berwick-finally-faces-the-finance-committee-briefly/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=berwick-finally-faces-the-finance-committee-briefly</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Berwick’s long-awaited appearance before the Senate Finance Committee turned out to be a bit anticlimactic and abbreviated, as votes taking place on the Senate floor limited the hearing to a little over an hour.  Republicans complained that they couldn’t possibly ask the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator all their questions in such [...]]]></description>
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