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<title><![CDATA[Marc Siegel - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/18795.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Marc Siegel]]></description><category domain="18795">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Amid Rampant AI &amp; Social Media, Gen Z Turning to Religion]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2026/02/08/gen-z-religion-returning-faith/88514969007/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whether it's St. Carlo Acutis or Charlie Kirk who drives a young person to express a spiritual side, this way of coping is extremely important.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Right To Block Dangerous Gain-of-Function Research]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/dr-marc-siegel-trump-is-right-to-block-dangerous-gain-of-function-research/ar-AA1Ef7Vg</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump was correct to issue an executive order on Monday that will block federal funding for gain-of-function research in China, Iran, and elsewhere, including the U.S.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Massacre Shows U.S. Failing To Deal With Violent Mentally Ill]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2023/10/26/opinion/massacre-shows-how-maine-and-nation-fail-to-deal-with-violent-mentally-ill/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Robert Card, suspect in the Lewiston, Maine, shootings, is a 40-year-old Army reservist, a trained firearms instructor, and had recently reported mental health issues including hearing voices.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[World Needs to Know What Happened at Wuhan Lab]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/wuhan-virology-lab-leak-gain-of-function-research-ccp-beijing-covid-origins-coronavirus-11629037765</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Was the coronavirus manipulated to infect humans? If so, that will inform our response.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Epstein's Death Is a Medical, Security Disgrace]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/08/15/jeffrey-epstein-suicide-watch-prison-death-security-column/2007609001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No matter what happened in Jeffrey Epstein's cell, medial personnel and prison authorities clearly failed in their duty to monitor and treat him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Overarching Theme of TrumpCare: More Choice, Less Cost]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/455259-the-overarching-theme-of-trumpcare-more-choice-less-cost</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Levers have been employed over the past two and a half years to improve transparency and increase competition. This translates to better quality.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why States Are Challenging Roe v. Wade]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/05/19/missouri-alabama-abortion-heartbeat-ban-roe-wade-column/3709112002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a doctor, I'm not there to carry out the will of either the state or the individual, but to do what I see as in keeping with my medical role.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Medicare for All Is a Pipe Dream]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/400381-medicare-for-all-is-a-pipe-dream</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new study released by Charles Blahous at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University has received a lot of attention this week. It concludes that the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Medicare for all'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' proposal endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and others would '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'increase federal budget...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Truth About Health Care, ObamaCare &amp; CBO Numbers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/05/25/dr-siegel-truth-about-your-health-care-obamacare-and-cbo-numbers.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Everyone wants a number to predict their future, especially when it comes to their health. We want to believe health insurance is a buffer against illness and death '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? but as a practicing physician, I can tell you that this concept is abstract sometimes, rather than real.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the Republican Health Plan Gets Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/opinion/what-the-republican-health-plan-gets-right.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I learn from my patients every day about the benefits, limitations and contradictions of their health insurance. One charming 60-year-old with severe seasonal allergies insists on seeing me every few weeks this time of year, even though I tell her she doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t need to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' her...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Diagnosing Your Doc's New Euphoria]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Diagnosing+Your+Doc%E2%80%99s+New+Euphoria&amp;oq=Diagnosing+Your+Doc%E2%80%99s+New+Euphoria&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.95j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=Diagnosing+Your+Doc%E2%80%99s+New+Euphoria&amp;tbm=nws</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Suddenly there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hope for dismantling ObamaCare'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and restoring sanity for doctors and patients.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why This Doctor Hates Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/dr-marc-siegel-doctor-hates-obamacare-article-1.2846378</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When President Obama gave an impassioned defense of Obamacare last week in advance of this November]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Stinks Even With Subsidies]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2015/03/09/obamacare-stinks-even-with-subsidies/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s Supreme Court arguments on ObamaCare struck me as a bit irrelevant, and not just because the case won'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t impact New York.The case is about whether federal subsidies are actually legal in states that didn'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t set up their own insurance exchanges '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' but the truth is, ObamaCare...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obamacare Will Hurt Doctors]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/obamacare-hurt-doctors-article-1.1581220</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A study just published in the prestigious journal Science reveals that new Medicaid patients in Oregon were 40% more likely to use the emergency room than the uninsured were. This finding is not a surprise to me or most physicians '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' we have known that truth for years.But it does...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Will Kill Quality Medicine]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303932504579252770123128660</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The appointments were gratifying, in an old-fashioned way. Patients still have the expectation that their doctor will be patient and listen carefully, but one by one doctors and patients are awakening from that comforting vision of the past to the rushed, restricted world of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sarah Murnaghan &amp; the ObamaCare Death Panel]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/351196/sarah-murnaghan-and-death-panel-marc-siegel</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The obstruction of medical progress by a blind bureaucracy is the future we all face under Obamacare, where bureaucrats will make arbitrary rulings that affect your health. Without a doctor ever seeing you or knowing your story, you may get handed a life-and-death decision, with little...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare: Talk to Your Doctor Now]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/obamacare_talk_to_your_doctor_now_7Qrjt5oEKcfkyinu9z4vtN</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Have you had '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the conversation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' with your doctor yet? I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t mean the conversation you used to have with your pre-pubescent kids before the Internet and Facebook took over sex education; I mean the post-ObamaCare conversation, where you try to figure out if you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Storm Coming for American Patients and Doctors]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/306578/obamacare-storm-coming-marc-siegel</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There may be a debate over whether Obamacare'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s individual mandate is a penalty or a tax, but there is no debate among doctors and their patients about the fact that Obamacare will be bad for America'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s health.The climate in my medical office is changing; my patients sense that a storm...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare's Horseless Chariot]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/marcsiegel/2012/04/15/obamacares-horseless-chariot/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Doctors, no fans of health insurance, are openly rooting that Obamacare will be struck down by SCOTUS, as appears to be the direction of things after last month'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s oral arguments.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What a Doctor Knows About ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/03/30/what-doctor-knows-about-obamacare/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the heart of the multi-headed abominable creature known as Affordable Care Act aka ObamaCare, there resides a singular deceit. It is too easy for lawyers and even U.S. Supreme Court Justices to miss this deceit in the process of arguing abstractions, but I and other doctors experience...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Killer Cellphones? Don't Believe the WHO Hype]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-06-03-Ignore-WHO-fearmongering-over-cellphones_n.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As if there isn't enough to worry about in our  world '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a flagging economy, terrorism, weather catastrophes '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' add this  one to your worry list: cellphones.Actually, don't add it. This week, a few of my  patients (I'm a physician) peppered me with questions about this new ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Latest Bad News in Massachusetts]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/universal_care_fast_track_to_the_uPkWPXRTMMcEkii0t3ZyZL</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Massachusetts "universal health-care system" -- the model for  ObamaCare -- is in big trouble after just five years. The latest bad  news: a survey from the Massachusetts Medical Society of more than 800  doctors.The wait time for an appointment is now routinely over a month for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Save Medicare by Repealing ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/medicare_cpr_H1gWCBt7NyjF97Hym6d3hP</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In less than a week the hysteria surrounding Rep. Paul Ryan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s  2012 budget proposal has reached fever pitch. Seniors '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'will be thrown  off of Medicare,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' according to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas).  In fact, seniors will die, according to the newly installed chairman of ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fake Doctors' Notes in Wisconsin: An Ethics Lesson]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/02/22/ethics-lesson-wisconsin-doctors-writing-fake-sick-notes/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine is investigating the  disturbing and disgraceful writing of fake sick notes by some of its  doctors to excuse teachers who decided to bail from their jobs. It is  the right call. But an investigation is not enough. The state Medical ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare: Flight of the MDs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/obamacare_flight_of_the_mds_2zWYU1R9DYG4K6dJ8oj8gP</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For all the times that President Obama promised "you'll get to keep your doctor" under his health-care reforms, he apparently failed to ask any practicing doctors.A recent survey finds that countless MDs will respond to ObamaCare by limiting which patients they'll see.The Physicians...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Health Care Law Will Clog the System]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-10-19-column19_ST_N.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A month ago, U.S. Health and Human Services  Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sent a letter to the president of America's  Health Insurance Plans stating that the impact on insurance premiums  from "the new consumer protections and increased quality provisions" of  the new health reform law...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Medical Care Will Change for the Worse]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/248520/you-can%E2%80%99t-keep-plan-you-have-marc-siegel</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last year, I ordered a CT scan of the chest on a 63-year-old patient whose chest X-ray had revealed a lung nodule. I had no problem getting the test approved by his private insurance company. The radiologist suggested that I repeat the CT scan this year to make sure the nodule hasn'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The ER Myth]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-07-28-column28_ST1_N.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the major myths attached to the new  health reform law is that it will lead to fewer emergency room visits.  Instead of having to go to the ER,  the claim goes, more efficient care will be administered to the newly  insured in doctors offices by primary care physicians like...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Health Care Law Hurts Doctors]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2010/04/column-new-health-care-law-isnt-what-this-doctor-ordered-.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A weekly series explores the issues of faith that are shaping our world.In Washington today, politicians too often just stand their ground. Liberal strategist Bob Beckel and conservative columnist Cal Thomas provide a better model.An at-a-glance look at online conversations selected for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Canada Shows Flaws of Gov't Run Health Care]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Marc Siegel</author>
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