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	<title><![CDATA[Sebelius Attacks Anthem Blue Cross Over Rate Hike]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius assailed Anthem Blue Cross for proposing to increase rates up to 39 percent in California. When she was Kansas...]]></description>
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	<title><![CDATA[Tennessee Hospitals to State: Tax Us, Please!]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Tennessee hospitals are discussing whether to support a new state tax to bolster Medicaid and prevent a catastrophic loss of federal funds.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:47:21 PST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Anti-Insurance Mandate Movement In States Could Kill Reform]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Efforts in two-thirds of the states to block the individual insurance requirement in national legislation could doom healthcare reform.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:22:23 PST</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Ken Terry</dc:creator>
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	<title><![CDATA[Healthcare Roundup: P&#038;G Buys Concierge Practice, Calif. Anthem Jacks Up Rates, NYC St. Vincent on Life Support, and More]]></title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:33:05 PST</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Ken Terry</dc:creator>
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	<title><![CDATA[Health Spending Hits 17.3 Percent of GDP In Largest Annual Jump]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Medicare actuaries project biggest increase in the healthcare portion of GDP since 1960. Government will fund the majority of healthcare by 2011.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:38:08 PST</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Ken Terry</dc:creator>
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	<title><![CDATA[Health Policy Experts Debate Where Reform Should Go]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Several health policy experts offer opinions on where healthcare reform should go from here.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:44:22 PST</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Ken Terry</dc:creator>
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	<title><![CDATA[Bigger Hospitals Eye Acquisitions of Weakened Competitors]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Some big healthcare systems are acquiring or looking to take over smaller, ailing competitors as the recession drags on.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:24:14 PST</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Ken Terry</dc:creator>
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	<title><![CDATA[HCA Telegraphs Earnings Leap As It Pays Big Dividend]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[HCA, which reported strong results for the fourth quarter of 2009 and the full year, is paying a dividend of $1.75 billion to its private-equity...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:20:05 PST</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Ken Terry</dc:creator>
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	<title><![CDATA[Healthcare Roundup: Community Hospitals Go For IT, Providers Nix Red Flags, NYC St. Vincent May Close, and More]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Roundup of latest healthcare news.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:36:13 PST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[WellPoint Earnings: Big Insurer Stays Even as Membership Falls]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[WellPoint's 2009 results suggest that the large-self insured companies will generate an increasing portion of WellPoint's--and possibly other...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:14:50 PST</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Ken Terry</dc:creator>
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