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    <description>How to fix health policy.</description>
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  <title>What it will cost you to deny health insurance to illegal immigrants.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  In his Sept. 9 speech to Congress on health care, when President Obama said, "The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally," Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., shot back: "You lie!" What Obama meant was that health care reform would not extend government subsidies to illegal aliens to purchase health insurance. What Wilson meant was that health care reform would nonetheless allow illegal immigrants who were uninsured to purchase unsubsidized health insurance through the exchanges that reform would create. Indeed, to whatever extent the government could track down uninsured illegal immigrants through the tax system, it would compel them to buy health insurance. This was unacceptable to Wilson and other conservatives—not because they felt illegal immigrants should be left in peace, but because they felt illegal immigrants should be excluded entirely from whatever superstructure would be created by health care reform.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2236288/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Timothy Noah</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:50:09 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The man who watered down the public option explains what government economists got wrong.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the twilight struggle to create a "public option" government health-insurance program. After protracted negotiation with conservative "blue dog" Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi passed a health care bill that included a watered-down public option that would not be permitted to align physician and doctor fees with Medicare rates, which typically are below the rates paid by private insurers. Even so, public-option advocates like me argued, the advantages inherent in government health insurance would price public-option premiums lower than premiums for private insurance, exerting downward competitive pressure on the private market. This was health care reform's most effective tool for curbing medical inflation.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2235916/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Timothy Noah</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:02:09 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>What's inside Harry Reid's "blended" Senate health care reform bill.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  The health care reform bill that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will bring to the floor (text, CBO score) is mostly better than the Senate finance bill on which it is largely based. But it is mostly worse than the counterpart reform bill (text, CBO score) already passed by the House.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2236147/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Timothy Noah</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:02:09 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Sen. Harry Reid's health reform striptease.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Sen. Harry Reid was set to unveil his "blended" health care reform bill on Nov. 19. The Congressional Budget Office was expected to release its analysis of the bill on Nov. 18, but it wasn't yet available on the CBO's Web site, and my attempts to get the CBO to tell me when it would make the analysis public were unavailing. (In its defense, I was having cell phone trouble and therefore couldn't leave a message.) Perhaps Reid didn't want to be upstaged, since the full CBO analysis of the bill couldn't really avoid telling you a lot about what the bill actually contained.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2236027/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2896" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2896" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
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  <author>Timothy Noah</author>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:58:24 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>What watching ESPN could teach us about mammograms.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  It's not often that a football game can teach us something useful about mammography. But look what happened on Sunday after New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick decided to go for a short fourth-down conversion from his own 28 yard line, with a late six-point lead. The Colts stopped the Pats cold to take possession, and star quarterback Peyton Manning quickly fired off a touchdown pass to win the game for Indianapolis.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2236028/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>prescriptions</category>
  <author>Darshak Sanghavi</author>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:14:53 EST</pubDate>
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