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	<title><![CDATA[Whining Americans Choose Caviar Health Care]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lester-feder/whining-americans-choose_b_113767.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Al Hubbard, architect of the Bush-cum-McCain health plan, compares Americans' use of the health care system to shoppers who indiscriminately buy caviar while someone else foots the bill, just as <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/19/us/politics/19mccain.html?_r=1&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;ref=todayspaper&amp;adxnnlx=1216477435-ieY2033KR6Dan1GydJURpw">Senator Phil Gramm exits</a> as co-chair of John McCain's presidential campaign after calling America a "nation of whiners" in a "mental recession." </p>

<p><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/hubbard-bio.html">Hubbard</a>, former assistant to the president for economic policy, <a href="http://kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&amp;hc=2864">spoke</a> at a Thursday event at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He blamed patients...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Off The Bus]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-07-27T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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