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	<title>Bakersfield Express &#187; health care reform</title>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time to end the health care debate roller coaster</title>
		<link>http://bakersfieldexpress.org/2010/03/19/its-time-to-end-the-health-care-debate-roller-coaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Martinez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the House set to vote on the health care reform bill Sunday, Republicans are still using scare tactics to confuse the issues. Not that they don't want reform, they just don't want Obama's reform. It's time to get off this roller coaster ride, writes CSUB political science professor Mark Martinez.]]></description>
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		<title>CSUB tackles national debt, health care reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local experts debate the top issues facing the nation and how they affect Bakersfield at a community level in a panel sponsored by the college's Financial Management Association.]]></description>
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		<title>Before reform, health care must be deemed a right</title>
		<link>http://bakersfieldexpress.org/2009/10/06/before-reform-health-care-must-be-deemed-a-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Geluso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[America's philosophy -- that anyone who works can pursue anything -- breaks down without health care, bioethics expert Art Caplan argued at CSUB Monday night.]]></description>
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		<title>Kegley Institute tackles ethics of health care reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bioethics professor Arthur Caplan will give a talk titled "From Death Panels to Bureaucrats Killing Grandma" on Monday, Oct. 5 at CSUB.]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Reform Roundtable: Steve Schilling</title>
		<link>http://bakersfieldexpress.org/2009/09/02/health-care-reform-roundtable-steve-schilling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Geluso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Schilling, CEO of Clinica Sierra Vista, says the worst payers he has to deal with are private insurance companies, not government programs.]]></description>
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		<title>What is the &#8216;full price&#8217; of health care?</title>
		<link>http://bakersfieldexpress.org/2009/08/31/what-is-the-full-price-of-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Geluso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reporter James Geluso is looking for answers. Specifically, if government and private insurance pay discounted prices, then who is paying the "full price" of health care? And what, exactly, does "full price" mean?]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Reform Roundtable: Les Burson</title>
		<link>http://bakersfieldexpress.org/2009/08/29/health-care-reform-roundtable-les-burson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Geluso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Les Burson is an emergency room physician who says service providers should receive tax write-offs for providing free care to the uninsured.]]></description>
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		<title>Town hall offers some solutions, mostly rhetoric</title>
		<link>http://bakersfieldexpress.org/2009/08/27/town-halls-offers-some-solutions-mostly-rhetoric/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Geluso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Kevin McCarthy's health care meeting at CSUB felt more like a Republican rally than a town hall. Still, he offered some specific steps to reform.]]></description>
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		<title>Bakersfield&#8217;s take on the health care debate</title>
		<link>http://bakersfieldexpress.org/2009/08/26/bakersfields-take-on-the-health-care-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much of what we hear and read about health care reform is coming from Washington and national pundits. So Bakersfield Express is bringing the debate home. ]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Reform Roundtable: Michelle Quiogue</title>
		<link>http://bakersfieldexpress.org/2009/08/26/health-care-reform-roundtable-michelle-quiogue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Geluso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michelle Quiogue, a family doctor at Kaiser Permanente, says that although she works on salary rather than by fee-for-service, the real cost savings comes from preventive care. She also supports an option that disconnects employers from health insurance.]]></description>
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