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	<title>Acid Test &#187; medicine</title>
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		<title>We need a Plan B</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2011/12/we-need-a-plan-b/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s true of the pill. If that&#8217;s not obvious to you, you&#8217;re not paying attention. Or you have an agenda. One that does not include [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cure for viruses. This is HUGE.</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2011/08/cure-for-viruses-this-is-huge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just saw this, and I&#8217;m so excited I can barely contain myself. This is like being there at the discovery of penicillin. MIT researchers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s enough to make anyone grumpy</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/09/its-enough-to-make-anyone-grumpy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/09/its-enough-to-make-anyone-grumpy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Health care for everyone costs half as much</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/07/health-care-for-everyone-costs-half-as-much/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/07/health-care-for-everyone-costs-half-as-much/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The facts of the cost control debate are crystal clear: Countries with universal, accessible health care (note that I didn&#8217;t say &#8220;health insurance&#8221;) have per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News you can use: swine flu and face masks</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/07/news-you-can-use-swine-flu-and-face-masks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/07/news-you-can-use-swine-flu-and-face-masks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you had the experience when hiking of shifting your way-too-heavy pack a bit and it feels better for a while? I feel like doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicine and the Unfree Market</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/06/medicine-and-the-unfree-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/06/medicine-and-the-unfree-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medicine and the so-called free market are incompatible in important ways. An outstanding article in the recent New Yorker by Atul Gawande makes that point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Single payer vs Public option</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/06/single-payer-vs-public-option/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/06/single-payer-vs-public-option/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is all you need. Shove this in anyone&#8217;s face who starts saying, &#8220;But, but, but . . . the guvvamint!&#8221; From a comment by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My life in their claws</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/05/my-life-in-their-claws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/05/my-life-in-their-claws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 15:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel like a mouse in a room full of cats. In the struggle for health care reform, will Big 0&#8242;s need for popularity or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Milestones</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/12/medical-milestones/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/12/medical-milestones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three stories, the first more interesting, the next two much better than all the other depressing stuff smothering the news. (None of these are up-to-the-minute. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf War Syndrome and chemicals connected (duh)</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/03/gulf-war-syndrome-and-chemicals-connected-duh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/03/gulf-war-syndrome-and-chemicals-connected-duh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m surprised. I&#8217;m mainly wondering why it took 17 years&#8230;. From the BBC: There is evidence linking chronic health problems suffered by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Profits cost us cures</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/profits-cost-us-cures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/profits-cost-us-cures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know nobody here needs convincing that the free market doesn&#8217;t provide the best medical care for all. But it&#8217;s not just the care part [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ten Minute Cancer Test</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/ten-minute-cancer-test/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/ten-minute-cancer-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now all they need is the ten-minute cure. No, seriously, this is interesting and promising. While a patient is in a doctor&#8217;s or dentist&#8217;s office, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do these people sleep at night?</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/01/how-do-these-people-sleep-at-night/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/01/how-do-these-people-sleep-at-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article on Alertnet by Ruth Gidley talks about the case currently before the High Court in Chennai, India, about whether to grant Novartis patent [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Real Moral Hazard of Medical Insurance</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2006/01/real-moral-hazard-of-medical-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2006/01/real-moral-hazard-of-medical-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It came as news to me that there was a moral hazard associated with health insurance. I thought it was a way of paying for [...]]]></description>
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