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GENE LYONS: The time of now for health reform (The Indiana Gazette)

Given the nation's deepening economic crisis, some are cautioning President-elect Obama to postpone comprehensive health-insurance reform until things settle down. For reasons both substantive and political, it's crucial that he ignore them.

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Leading a healthy life in UP difficult: Vice-President (The Times of India)

The prospect of living a healthy life for the 180 million people of UP is profoundly disturbing. For, the life expectancy is 56 years here as against 74 years in Kerala, says Vice-President Mohammed Hamid Ansari.

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Letters: House prices (Independent)

Once again you print a story about falling house prices. ("Even slight optimism dashed for UK housing", 6 January) The title and the tone of the piece suggest that you believe falling house prices to be a bad thing. How can this be when you mention that 750,000 potential buyers were locked out of the market between 2003 and 2007? Surely falling prices are a very good thing indeed?

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More private patients in public Australian hospital beds (News-Medical-Net)

According to a new report more Australian privately insured patients used the public hospital system last year than previously and there are concerns that encouraging people to take out private health insurance is doing little to reduce the burden on the public health system.

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Elective Surgery Out Of Reach For Most NZers (Scoop.co.nz)

Nearly three quarters of all New Zealand adults (73%) would not be able to self fund imminent elective surgery costing $5,000 or more, according to research from the Southern Cross Medical Care Society.

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The great innovation black hole (Crikey)

Labor's bold infrastructure plans are now hardly worth the paper they're written on, writes Phillip O'Neill .

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How private surgery cuts into public hospitals (The Advocate)

HIGH-END surgery in private hospitals, costing health funds $100,000-plus per case, is on the rise, fuelling concerns that it is adding to, not reducing, the strain on public hospitals.

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