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		<title>Quick Hits and Implementation Timeline</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several web sites are just now coming out with summaries of the changes and timetable. Here are some of the best so far: 
− House Ways and Means Committee
Two of the most useful summaries on this web site are:
− Implementation timeline
- Summary
Kaiser Family Foundation (http://healthreform.kff.org) and Kaiser Health News are also great sites for detailed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signed, Sealed and Deliverd (Almost)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow! What a week! With Thursday evening’s passage of the House and Senate conference “fix” to the Senate Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the health overhaul package becomes the most far-reaching health legislation since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s. President Obama signed into law the Senate bill on Tuesday, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reconciliation Act of 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can read the full text of the Reconciliation Act of 2010, as released by Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y.
Click here for H.R. 4872.
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		<title>Catastrophic Coverage Or Dropping a Coverage Mandate - Both Get an &#8220;F&#8221; in Math</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservatives tout that we should just allow people to buy         cheap catastrophic plans (i.e., with high deductibles and out-of-pocket         expenses before benefits kick in). But a reform bill that does so is almost as      [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;New and Improved&#8221; Health Care Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[voters wants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While the health care reform effort itself lies on the operating table in critical condition, Democrats and Republicans are going through the motions of trying to be bipartisan, since that seems to be what the voters want.
Actually, as we reported in the January 13th Bucks Voices update and previously, it&#8217;s not clear what the voters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Democrats&#8217; Bills Are on Life Support</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Democrats Health Care Bill]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Difficult week for Dems]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Life Support]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What a   change a week makes!  Since the   Massachusetts election on January 19, pundits this past week have been having a   field day trying to explain why prospects for passing the House and Senate   Democrats&#8217; bills are coming perilously close to failure. There are no one or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing Nothing is Not an Option</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Costs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This has been a tough week for health reform. As we have emphasized all last year, the consequences of doing nothing are truly scary:

Costs will continue to     rise at 7-10% per year, compared to skimpy pay raises if any. Take a     spreadsheet and assume health care now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ongoing Individual Mandate Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Coverage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[individual mandate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As we&#8217;ve noted before, there&#8217;s an ongoing debate about the individual mandate in both the House and Senate bills. Here are the main criticisms:
− From conservatives: government should not require you to buy a product.
− From some liberals (e.g., Democracy for America, run by Howard Dean and his brother Jim): government should not require you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ongoing Cost Impact Controversies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcosdon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cost of Health Care Bills]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) provides the official cost projections for congressional bills, the chief actuary for the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has also been giving forth financial projections, since the bills of course involve changes to Medicare and Medicaid. This analysis says the bill passed in the Senate, according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reconciling the House and Senate Bills - Key Sticking Points</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Resolving differences between House and Senate Bills]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While it is happening in private consultations, Democratic Party leaders of the House and Senate are supposedly making progress on resolving many of the differences between the bills passed in each house of Congress. The biggest issues and likely outcomes are:
−Public option (in the House bill): likely to be removed, in order to secure passage [...]]]></description>
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