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	<title>the Global Observatory &#187; Health</title>
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	<description>A lot of caustic and sarcastic humor, stupid opinions, canned news and scanty revelations on politics, foreign affairs, social and fiscal issues, and much else from an independent, yet conservative and Republican, perspective from the Pacific Northwest. Yeah, right.</description>
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		<title>NHS Spends 10,000 Pounds on Establishing Hilter&#8217;s Mass Appeal</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/05/nhs-spends-10000-pounds-on-establishing-hilters-mass-appeal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/05/nhs-spends-10000-pounds-on-establishing-hilters-mass-appeal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 21:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The British health bureaucracy, that is being emulated here in the U.S. under Obamacare, just spend 10,000 freaking  pounds on asking its employees if they thought Hitler was cool. On top of that, the employees were:
&#8230;then asked to rate Hitler in comparison with their own chief  executive
Isn&#8217;t that 10k better spent on providing health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obamacare Will Create 560lbs Monsters</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/05/obamacare-will-create-560lbs-monsters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/05/obamacare-will-create-560lbs-monsters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 21:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Britain&#8217;s NHS which controls almost every aspect of a patient&#8217;s health-care regime only does something when&#8230;
We will always review a person&#8217;s care  needs following a spell in hospital.
Quite often, a person&#8217;s circumstances have changed so we routinely  carry  out a review to ensure an appropriate care plan is in place.
So, the government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s To Blame For Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs?</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/04/whos-to-blame-for-skyrocketing-healthcare-costs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/04/whos-to-blame-for-skyrocketing-healthcare-costs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CNN has a (sob) story about a man who was quoted $33,000 for a nasal surgery by U.S. doctors but was able to receive the same service in Wales at 1/10th the cost.
The following graphic shows pretty clearly how much skewed US costs are in comparison to the rest of the world:

Of course, the quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step 1 to Stop Obamacare: AG Lawsuit</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/03/step-1-to-stop-obamacare-ag-lawsuit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/03/step-1-to-stop-obamacare-ag-lawsuit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Attorneys-General of 14 states have filed suit to prevent Obamacare from going into effect. Their argument? The health-care reform bill:
&#8230;has violated the states&#8217; rights as “sovereigns and protectors of the freedom, health, and welfare of their citizens and residents.”
Along with outside counsellers from litigation experts at Baker Hostetler, the AGs are arguing that:
The Act [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Really Bad About the Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/03/whats-really-bad-about-the-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/03/whats-really-bad-about-the-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Democraps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The summary of the health care bill is as follows:
Cost: $940bn over 10 years; would reduce deficit by $143bn
Coverage: Expanded to 32m currently uninsured Americans
Medicare: Prescription drug coverage gap closed; affected over-65s receive rebate and discount on brand name drugs
Medicaid: Expanded to include families under 65 with gross income of up to 133% of federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romney Criticizes Healthcare Reform Based on His Original Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/03/romney-criticizes-healthcare-reform-based-on-his-original-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/03/romney-criticizes-healthcare-reform-based-on-his-original-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The health care reform bill just passed by the House seems a lot like the one heavily promoted and signed by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts. In an article for the NRO, Romney claims:
His health-care bill is unhealthy for America. It raises taxes, slashes the more private side of Medicare, installs price controls, and puts a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Reform Passed: Democrats Will Lose 33 in November</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/03/healthcare-reform-passed-democrats-will-lose-33-in-november/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/03/healthcare-reform-passed-democrats-will-lose-33-in-november/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Democraps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[33 seems like an auspicious number. That&#8217;s the number of House Democrats who voted for the Obama-Reid-Pelosi Healthcare Destruction Act of 2010. And, that will be the number of seats the Democratic Party will lose in November, 2010, at the very least.
The 33 Democrats who are afraid enough right now to bring down the wrath [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Wants to Remove the Wrong Testicle</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/03/obama-wants-to-remove-the-wrong-testicle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/03/obama-wants-to-remove-the-wrong-testicle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=1697</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The NHS of the UK should change its name to the National Horror Service, given the constant flow of absolutely blood-curdling stories of medical malpractice and even outright stupidity.
In the latest case, doctors at the West Suffolk Hospital, an NHS institution, removed the wrong testicle leaving the man infertile. They ended up removing both testicles, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain/Dorgan Don&#8217;t Like Dietary Supplements</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/02/mccaindorgan-dont-like-dietary-supplements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/02/mccaindorgan-dont-like-dietary-supplements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john mccain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Proving even further that John McCain is hardly a Republican advocating more and more government intrusion into the private lives of citizens and restricting personal choice, he (along with Byron Dorgan) has introduced another crappy bill restricting access to dietary supplements, claiming:
All Americans should know the exact ingredients of any dietary supplement they use and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Move &#8230; the Obamas Out of the White House</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/02/lets-move-the-obamas-out-of-the-white-house/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/02/lets-move-the-obamas-out-of-the-white-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Michelle Obama has launched a new initiative, Let&#8217;s Move, to combat childhood obesity.
She feels that bringing &#8220;grocery stores to low-income neighborhoods&#8221;  and helping &#8220;places like convenience stores carry healthier food options,&#8221; in addition to more onerous food labeling requirements will provide parents the information and choices they need to make better decisions for their children.
My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Euthanasia is Wrong Because&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/11/euthanasia-is-wrong-because/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/11/euthanasia-is-wrong-because/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=1244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; of this guy who was claimed to be in a &#8220;coma&#8221; or &#8220;vegetative state&#8221; for 23 years, but was actually fully conscious the WHOLE time.
Student Rom Houben was misdiagnosed after a car crash left him totally paralysed.
He had no way of letting experts, family or friends know he could hear every word they said.
Now, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Reform Doesn&#8217;t Look Too Bad</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/11/healthcare-reform-doesnt-look-too-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/11/healthcare-reform-doesnt-look-too-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=1206</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WSJ&#8217;s summary of the recently passed healthcare reform bill doesn&#8217;t make it seem too bad.
The biggest problems that I can see include the following:

The Health Choices Commissioner - a government bureaucrat will decide what care you can get. As the WSJ writes:
[Hospitals] would also face new penalties for readmitting Medicare patients in instances that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kick Out Olympia Snowe!</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/10/kick-out-olympia-snowe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/10/kick-out-olympia-snowe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why is she even in the GOP? Traitor!
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		<title>Prescription Pseudoephedrine?</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/09/prescription-pseudoephedrine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/09/prescription-pseudoephedrine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=1064</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why are drugs banned? Why is metamphetamine banned? If someone wants to poison himself with drugs, that&#8217;s one less crazy person for society to deal with. The war on drugs hasn&#8217;t made us safer, or our kids safer.
If you really want to buy, or make, drugs, you can do it all you like. It&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Love This Congresswoman</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/i-love-this-congresswoman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/i-love-this-congresswoman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ObamaCare™ is stirring up another controversy over whether abortion would be funded under the Democrats&#8217; health care plans.
Now, Rep. Lois Capps (D., Calif.) claims:
It&#8217;s very personal and it&#8217;s very emotional &#8230; The goal is to not have controversial points stand in the way of making progress.
The progress we are talking about here is itself controversial. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is This Our Model For Nationalized Healthcare a.k.a. ObamaCare?</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/is-this-our-model-for-nationalized-healthcare-a-k-a-obamacare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/is-this-our-model-for-nationalized-healthcare-a-k-a-obamacare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BBC reports about the UK&#8217;s NHS:
A patient lobby group is demanding an urgent review of basic hospital care after highlighting accounts of &#8220;appalling&#8221; NHS standards.
Relatives told the Patients Association how their loved ones, often elderly people, were left lying in faeces and urine and were not helped to eat.
&#8230;The report focused on 16 stories from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Ready For A Zombie Attack?</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/are-you-ready-for-a-zombie-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/are-you-ready-for-a-zombie-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now that they have cured cancer and AIDS, scientists ponder the effect of a future zombie outbreak.
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		<title>Majority Against Congressional Healthcare Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/majority-against-congressional-healthcare-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/majority-against-congressional-healthcare-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=986</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, that&#8217;s right. 54% think that no plan is better than the Obama-Pelosi-Reid plan.
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		<title>NYT Forgot the Real Problems with British and Canadian Health Systems</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/nyt-forgot-the-real-problems-with-british-and-canadian-health-systems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/nyt-forgot-the-real-problems-with-british-and-canadian-health-systems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Discussing the Canadian Medicare system, Theodore Marmor writes in the NYT:
Q. What is your biggest criticism of it?
A. The continued nastiness of federal-provincial negotiations about the shared financing of Medicare is one unappealing feature of the Canadian system. This dual responsibility leads to endless blaming between the national and provincial governments for the pressures of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCaskill: No Single Payer Health Care</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/mccaskill-no-single-payer-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/mccaskill-no-single-payer-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, claims: &#8220;We will not do this &#8230; not even being discussed,&#8221; after being hassled over Obama&#8217;s plans.
This might be the only way Republicans can defeat ObamaCare &#8211; single payer, single payer, single payer.
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		<title>Sugar Prices Hit Record High; Dieticians Rejoice</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/sugar-prices-hit-record-high-dieticians-rejoice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/sugar-prices-hit-record-high-dieticians-rejoice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sugar prices have reached a 28 year high, thanks to stupidity concerning Ethanol.
Probably, the only people happy from this development must be the oil companies, diabetics trying to quit sugar and dieticians.
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		<title>Plague + Swine Flu Scourge the Chinese</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/plague-swine-flu-scourge-the-chinese/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/plague-swine-flu-scourge-the-chinese/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to the swine flu that&#8217;s still causing concern for health officials in China, we now have another unpleasant addition to the scene - plague:
Thousands of people have been placed in quarantine in north-western China after a man died of pneumonic plague.
Chinese authorities say the man who died was a 32-year-old herdsman from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reichert (R-08) Being Attacked For Healthcare</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/reichert-r-08-being-attacked-for-healthcare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/reichert-r-08-being-attacked-for-healthcare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=865</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Republicans don&#8217;t really like Dave for his moderate record on the environment and much else. But, at least, he&#8217;s protesting against the forced imposition of ObamaCare™ &#8211; all for for a full 50 seconds but still.
Over the past few days, he&#8217;s getting much heat for this from the Obama-lackies at Healthcare for American Now:

This woman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Milbank Criticizes Steele&#8217;s Puppetry; What About Obama&#8217;s?</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/milbank-criticizes-steeles-puppetry-what-about-obamas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/milbank-criticizes-steeles-puppetry-what-about-obamas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=806</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A running theme on this blog has been the media&#8217;s liberal bias and constant grovelling to Obama, Pelosi, Reid, et. al. Today is no different.
It seems that criticizing Obama amounts to racism or some other -ism, but Steele is fair game because he&#8217;s a Republican. Steele&#8217;s race and everything else is trumped by his ideology.
Dana [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Declares War Against the Uninsured</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/obama-declares-war-against-the-uninsured/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/obama-declares-war-against-the-uninsured/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=802</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration today announced a sustained, national campaign against the uninsured, one that will go far beyond retaliation against the perpetrators of insurance terrorism in the United States.
U.S. President Barack Obama said the campaign would become the driving force of his presidency, and other top officials described a methodical unleashing of United States health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Health Care Plan Faces Existing Problems</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/obamas-health-care-plan-faces-existing-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/obamas-health-care-plan-faces-existing-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=786</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article from The Philadelphia Tribune, an African American newspaper in the Philly area&#8230;
This article originally appeared in the July 12 issue of The Philadelphia Tribune, authored by Christopher Moraff.
We all know the routine. You call your doctor for appointment, and &#8212; unless you have an acute illness &#8212; you might get one in two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the Rush, Barack?</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/whats-the-rush-barack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/whats-the-rush-barack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama calls upon Senators to pass his pet health-care reforms ASAP, saying:
Now is not the time to slow down
What&#8217;s the rush? Can we prioritize and fix the economy first, instead?
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		<title>Regina Benjamin, Obama&#8217;s Surgeon General: Not So Partisan?</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/regina-benjamin-obamas-surgeon-general-not-so-partisan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/regina-benjamin-obamas-surgeon-general-not-so-partisan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=662</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s nominee for the position of Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin, doesn&#8217;t seem as partisan as his other choices so far. Her work so far ought to solicit praise and respect:
Benjamin gained fame through her public efforts to rebuild her rural health clinic after Hurricane Katrina devastated it. She founded the Bayou La Batre Rural [...]]]></description>
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