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	<title><![CDATA[Bending Over Backwards to Be Wrong on Health Care]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-kirsch/bending-over-backwards-to_b_126908.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>I guess it was predictable in this day of "balanced" reporting, where each side gets equal treatment regardless of the lunacy of its arguments, that <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122153768171141665.html"><em>Health Affairs</em> would feature articles from competing economists</a> about the faults in the health care proposals of Senator McCain and Senator Obama. That approach feeds into the mainstream press' balanced cynicism, as in <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080916/ap_on_el_pr/candidates_health_plans">the lead of the <em>Associated Press</em> article</a>, "John McCain's health care plan won't lower the ranks of the uninsured. Barack...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-10-17T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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