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	<description>UNITING PHYSICIANS &#38; PATIENTS AS A VOICE IN HEALTH CARE</description>
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		<title>Doctor, Patient and Family (Consumer) Cost Consciousness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patients and their families face increasing challenges in paying for their health care and health care insurance, and these financial stresses will increase in the future.     MPPA is working to create and support a Minnesota health care marketplace to enhance real consumer choices and protections. MPPA believes that patients and their families, rather than health plans or state or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial considerations should be secondary to the optimization of their health</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial considerations are always part of the health care equation. Would I be better off having a check-up every month instead of every year? What are the cost and benefit considerations for me? Doctors need to collaborate with and educate patients. There are what &#8212; 90 some diagnostic tests that can be done on my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Patient Autonomy, Money Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MPPA believes that &#8220;doctors recommend and patients (or parents) decide&#8221; on their personal health care. Even when patients are civilly commitment or legally incompetent they continue have legal protections which respect their autonomy. Physicians and clinics should post (online) and routinely discuss the costs of health care that is recommended to their patients. Money issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pay-For-Performance Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 20:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pay-For-Performance Report, a statement of the Minnesota Physician-Patient Alliance on "pay for performance" to the Minnesota Citizens Forum on Health Care Costs, December 17, 2003.]]></description>
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		<title>Policy Statement on Disease Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 20:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Policy Statement on Disease Management by Insurers, December 4, 2003.]]></description>
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		<title>Managed Care Costs: Where Do Minnesota HMOs Spend Our Money?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 20:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using all the available public data, MPPA's accountant reviewed how Minnesota's three largest HMOs spent premium dollars in 1996: Managed Care Costs: Where Do Minnesota HMOs Spend Our Money? Without consistent definitions and categorization, it is difficult to determine the exact portion of funds spent on patient care. It is clear, however, that much more than the reported 9-12% was spent on administrative overhead. Up to 19%, in some instances, went into a poorly defined "other professional services" category which included the services of chiropractors, attorneys and janitors.]]></description>
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		<title>Health care: Life and death and substance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 19:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health care: Life and death and substance by Craig Westover http://mnfmi.org/2009/08/28/health-care-life-and-death-and-substance/]]></description>
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		<title>Single-payer model actually inhibits improved health care</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 19:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Single-payer model actually inhibits improved health care - About that health care bill, Gov. Pawlenty ...]]></description>
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		<title>The devil&#8217;s not in the details, but sitting in plain sight</title>
		<link>http://physician-patient.org/pages/the-devils-not-in-the-details-but-sitting-in-plain-sight/</link>
		<comments>http://physician-patient.org/pages/the-devils-not-in-the-details-but-sitting-in-plain-sight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 19:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The devil&#8217;s not in the details, but sitting in plain sight by Craig Westover http://mnfmi.org/2008/03/19/the-devils-not-in-the-details-but-sitting-in-plain-sight/]]></description>
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		<title>A sow&#8217;s ear of corporate socialism</title>
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		<comments>http://physician-patient.org/pages/a-sows-ear-of-corporate-socialism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 19:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sow&#8217;s ear of corporate socialism by Craig Westover http://mnfmi.org/2008/03/20/a-sows-ear-of-corporate-socialism/]]></description>
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