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	<title>BookEnds &#187; Health care</title>
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		<title>&#8216;Every Patient Tells a Story&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2009/10/26/every-patient-tells-a-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Jeff Morganteen has gone off to France to get his carte vitale, I can tell you that after I read T.R. Reid&#8217;s efficiently informative book I grabbed &#8220;Every Patient Tells a Story,&#8221; by Connecticut physician Dr. Lisa Sanders. Sanders does not dive into the health care debate. Instead, she details the topic she consults [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health care without the insurance, and the prescription</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2009/10/05/health-care-without-the-insurance-and-the-prescription/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still on the search for a fix for his sore shoulder, Reid leaves Canada before the end of the book to visit India and pay out of pocket at an ayurvedic clinic. I&#8217;ll save you the suspense: After weeks spent eating healthfully, relaxing, and being intensely massaged, Reid&#8217;s shoulder felt better and had a better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health care news.</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2009/10/01/health-care-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you all probably know by now, the Senate Finance Committee, one of five Congressional committees critical to health care reform, rejected two proposals Tuesday that would have created a public insurance plan to compete with private health insurance companies. The public option has been a constant demand of more liberal lawmakers but is widely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Actually socialized health care</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2009/09/28/actually-socialized-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever politicians talk about health care reform, Americans probably fear most the systems Britain and Canada have. It makes no difference that Reid and many others who have benefited from them extol their virtues. These systems are so different from what the U.S. does that they’re not likely to be implemented soon anyway.* Britain is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The carte vitale</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2009/09/23/the-carte-vitale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Morganteen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my first time over at BookEnds, and I&#8217;m slowly slogging through T.R. Reid&#8217;s &#8220;The Healing of America&#8221; because I foolishly began reading four books over the past few weeks and I&#8217;m only close to finishing one — &#8220;The Long Goodbye,&#8221; by Raymond Chandler. Yes, cheesy private detective fiction holds my attention longer than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France, Germany, and Japan</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2009/09/21/france-germany-and-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before he takes us to France, T.R. Reid explores all of the things that might increase medical care costs for Americans as opposed to their counterparts in other countries. He disabuses us of two notions right away: that it&#8217;s doctors salaries and malpractice insurance. Doctors do get paid more in the U.S. than they do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weighing in with policy</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2009/09/14/weighing-in-with-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s important to know before reading &#8220;The Healing of America&#8221; that the author, T.R. Reid, takes as a given that the health care system in America is broken. This seems pretty uncontroversial to me at this point. Nearly everyone agrees on the diagnosis; it was a big campaign issue for both Democrats and Republicans in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health care systems in other countries</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2009/09/02/health-care-systems-in-other-countries/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2009/09/02/health-care-systems-in-other-countries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the health care debate looms as a major issue when Washington gets back from vacation, we&#8217;re planning to read a journalist&#8217;s look at health care systems in other countries after we get back from vacation. Start reading T.R. Reid&#8217;s The Healing of America with us after Labor Day.]]></description>
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		<title>Nudging on health care</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2009/08/26/nudging-on-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two books I&#8217;ve read recently provide pretty good perspective on the health care debate &#8212; &#8220;Nudge,&#8221; by Obama advisor Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler and &#8220;Better,&#8221; by Atul Gawande. Gawande, a New Yorker staff writer, wrote the oft-cited piece about the cost of health care in McAllen, Texas, where Medicaid reimbursements are the highest in [...]]]></description>
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