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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://communities.psych.org/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Health Care Reform </title><link>http://communities.psych.org/blogs/dgr_blog/archive/2009/02/06/health-care-reform.aspx</link><description>President Obama and Congressional leaders are promoting health care reform, including health care coverage, as a major goal for 2009. With some 46 million Americans uninsured and millions more underinsured, how do you think our elected leaders can best</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008 (Build: 30417.1769)</generator><item><title>re: Health Care Reform </title><link>http://communities.psych.org/blogs/dgr_blog/archive/2009/02/06/health-care-reform.aspx#5439</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:13:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3d99252-30df-4c9b-b3c7-f3accd7122f8:5439</guid><dc:creator>Edward B. Mohns, MD</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Big Pharma has the most powerfuul lobby in Washington (roughly 650 lobbyists), and elected&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;officials of both parties are substantially indebted to&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;them. I think the effects of predatory capitalism will have to become worse, public outrage even greater, and a filibuster-proof majority elected (one hopes at the midterms) before a single-payer national health system will become politically feasible as well as urgently financially necessary, which is aleady the case.&lt;/p&gt;
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