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	<title><![CDATA[While Lobbyists Lament Rationing, Some Patients Want It]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/francine-hardaway/while-lobbyists-lament-ra_b_227486.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>The health care industry is spending about $1.5 million a day on lobbying efforts in Congress. Most of those dollars are spent fighting against the threat of "rationing." That doesn't count the money that's spent on TV ads in which disgruntled people from Canada tell why they come to the United States for surgery (supposedly because public plans ration care.) The rant about rationing is designed to make consumers feel that no one will be able to get in to...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-07-08T11:23:00-04:00</date_published>
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