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	<title>Medical Wise &#187; Medicare</title>
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		<title>House Health-Care Bill: AMA! Obama! Protesters!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jacob Goldstein
Sorry about all those exclamation marks in the headline. But there&#8217;s lots of action in DC today, what with the House set to vote on the big health-care bill this Saturday.
The AMA came out in favor of the House bill today. Not a huge surprise, given the group&#8217;s endorsement of the health-care bill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare Payments for Doctors: Back to the One-Year Fix!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jacob Goldstein
The Senate just killed that bill that would have blocked Medicare pay cuts to doctors. All of the Republicans opposed the bill, along with a handful of Dems. But that doesn&#8217;t mean the looming 21% pay cut is going to take effect next year.
Instead, Congress will likely do what it almost always does: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senator Compares AMA to a Prostitute</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jacob Goldstein
There were some heated words on the Senate floor today as Congress debated what to do about planned Medicare pay cuts for doctors. We&#8217;ll get to the rhetoric in a minute, but first a bit of the back story.
Under current law, Medicare payment rates for doctors will fall by 21% next year. Nobody [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the Health Care Bills Do (and Don’t Do) for Primary Care</title>
		<link>http://mwcreative.com/what-the-health-care-bills-do-and-don%e2%80%99t-do-for-primary-care</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jacob Goldstein
Yes, the big health-care bills moving through Congress include a few measures to increase the number of primary-care doctors. No, those measures probably aren&#8217;t enough to satisfy the demand for primary-care projected by medical educators and others, Kaiser Health News reports
Medicare payments to primary-care docs would be boosted by 10% under the the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Don’t More Doctors Discuss Vaccines With Their Patients?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Laura Landro
In the push to get Americans vaccinated against both the seasonal flu and the swine flu, infectious disease experts and public health officials are also sounding the alarm about continuing low rates of adult vaccination for a host of other preventable diseases, as I write in my latest column.
Despite evidence that vaccines are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare Payments to Doctors, the Senate Finance Bill and CBO</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jacob Goldstein
The Senate Finance Committee&#8217;s health-overhaul bill leaves in place a planned 25%  cut in Medicare payments to doctors in 2011. Congress probably won&#8217;t allow this to happen; lawmakers will likely swoop in, as they&#8217;ve donerepeatedly in recent years, and block the planned cuts.
But when CBO does its projections, it doesn&#8217;t take into [...]]]></description>
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