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	<title><![CDATA[When Federal Employees Decide Your Family's Medical Treatment]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-reardon/when-federal-employees-de_b_167407.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>I'm not as sanguine as some about a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/health/policy/16health.html?_r=1">council</a> of federal employees who will determine which medical treatments are more effective. I understand something must be done about medical costs, but from the time I read plans for bringing the costs of chronic illnesses under control on both Clinton and Obama's websites, I've wondered if this isn't doublespeak for take-it-or-leave-it medicine.</p>

<p>Having been a professor of preventive medicine for many years and having had both cancer and Parkinson's disease, at...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-02-16T18:07:00-05:00</date_published>
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