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	<title>Stephen S. S. Hyde On Health Care Reform Topics &#187; Health Costs</title>
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		<title>HOW HEALTH REFORM CAN WORK: PART 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hyde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government vs Markets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 1: Even a Blind Pig Finds an Occasional Truffle
I’ve made no secret of my disdain for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the new health reform law. It is a bad bill that focuses the wrong “solutions” on the wrong problems and promises to visit unnecessary economic distress and destruction on America’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHICH WAY WILL OBAMACARE BEND THE MEDICAL COST CURVE?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hyde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know that more than half of all medical cost is wasted, adding no value to the patient. We also know that the total costs of medical provider billing, collection, and payment consume as much as 30% of every health care dollar—about ten times the transaction costs in every other industry. If medical care were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HEALTH REFORM&#8217;S &#8220;IMMEDIATE BENEFITS&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hyde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Costs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform Goals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health reform's immediate benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[higher health insurance premiums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[higher medical costs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About the same time I saw a picture of the man I voted for signing the new health reform bill, I received an  email with a picture of George Bush (The Younger) waving at the camera with one of his goofier grins and the caption, “Miss me yet?” I’m hardly a Bush fan, but at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IS EMPLOYER HEALTH INSURANCE DYING?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hyde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Health Care Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employer health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[group insurance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of President Obama’s most frequent health reform mantras is, “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.&#8221;  This is consistent with his belief that we “must build on the current employer-based system” that insures 158 million people who comprise the vast bulk of all privately insured Americans. There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Health Reform Summit&#8212;Making Prevention Really Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hyde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Costs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prevention]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we approach Thursday’s bipartisan health summit, no one has yet successfully challenged the comprehensive health reform proposal I describe in my book, speeches, media interviews, and this blog. It has withstood all technical, actuarial, financial, behavioral, and economic challenges to date. This would be gratifying if it weren’t for one annoying loose end—the political [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE MASSACHUSETTS HEALTH REFORM EXPERIMENT&#8212;FIXING ROMNEY CARE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hyde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government vs Markets]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Commonwealth Connector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Brown won the Massachusetts senate race by promising to derail the Democrats’ congressional health reform locomotive, a victory that has also thrust his biggest supporter, Mitt Romney, back into the national spotlight. The irony is that, as state senator, Brown helped pass then-Governor Romney’s remarkably similar 2006 state health overhaul. Despite Mr. Romney’s statement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NATIONAL HEALTH REFORM IS DEAD&#8212;LONG LIVE STATE HEALTH REFORM</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hyde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government vs Markets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cable news is jammed with horrific stories of widespread destruction and disarray caused by an unpredictable calamity that struck with sudden, unstoppable force, thrusting many who were already sorely beleaguered into chaos and desperate disarray. Hurried rescue missions failed to prevent widespread pain and suffering. Such is life for the Democrats following the Massachusetts special [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SHOULD HEALTH INSURANCE COVER PRIMARY AND PREVENTIVE CARE?</title>
		<link>http://www.hydeonhealthcare.com/should-insurance-cover-preventive-care.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hydeonhealthcare.com/should-insurance-cover-preventive-care.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hyde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Costs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[primary care doctor shortages]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I buy collision and comprehensive insurance on my car, but after talking to my State Farm agent, it might as well be called collision and incomprehensible. With seven layers of coverage, most of it is as clear to me as the details of health insurance are to many others. But it has two aspects I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>SENATE HEALTH REFORM TO CUT MEDICARE DOCTOR ACCESS</title>
		<link>http://www.hydeonhealthcare.com/reform-cuts-medicare-doctor-access.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hydeonhealthcare.com/reform-cuts-medicare-doctor-access.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hyde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government vs Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform Goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health-reform bookmakers currently favor the Senate bill over the House version as bicameral, unipartisan, unconference-committee participants conspire in a C-Span-free White House to extrude their secret sausage. One of many unfortunate consequences of the Senate bill—according to a new report from the government’s own Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)—is likely to be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HEALTH REFORM AND END OF LIFE</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hyde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government vs Markets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Death is an unavoidable  theme this time of year. Having just celebrated a great religious martyr, we move on to witness last January’s swaddled babe transformed into an ancient, arthritic geezer doomed to die at Thursday’s midnight toll. We ponder the lives of those who’ve passed this past twelvemonth—whether near, dear, or merely famous. And [...]]]></description>
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