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	<title>The Bronx Ink &#187; Health Care Reform</title>
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		<title>Obamacare Fines Set to Hit Bronx Hospitals</title>
		<link>http://bronxink.org/2012/11/30/25013-obamacare-fines-set-to-hit-bronx-hospitals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha Lindstrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal health care reform is forcing hospitals nationwide to drive down patient readmission rates — or risk losing Medicare revenue. Here's a look at why and how Bronx hospitals are responding. ]]></description>
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		<title>Advocates stomping out South Bronx cigarette ads</title>
		<link>http://bronxink.org/2011/10/13/17597-anti-smoking-advocates-target-point-of-sale-advertising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rani Molla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smokers in the South Bronx are still lighting up as much as ever since 2007. Are cigarette ads to blame? ]]></description>
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		<title>VIDEO &#8211; &#8220;God, You Are My Insurance:&#8221; An Immigrant Speaks</title>
		<link>http://bronxink.org/2010/03/26/6041-video-god-you-are-my-insurance-an-immigrant-speaks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illegal Immigrants were excluded from the health care reform. Manuel, a father in the Bronx is one of them. Here is his story.]]></description>
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		<title>Historic student loan changes also on tap</title>
		<link>http://bronxink.org/2010/03/23/5763-historic-student-loan-changes-also-on-tap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Butrymowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ryan Tracy The bill even revamps the federal government’s system for making loans to college students.  The loans would now be given to students directly, eliminating a decades-old program whereby private banks made student loans based on a government guarantee. For more than 100 current Yeshiva University students who hold loans under the soon-to-be-ended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No coverage for illegal immigrants</title>
		<link>http://bronxink.org/2010/03/23/5761-no-coverage-for-illegal-immigrants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Butrymowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Sam Fellman The sweeping health care reform bill passed by Congress will benefit many immigrants, who now qualify for tax credits and more affordable insurance. However, because it bars undocumented immigrants from the new private insurance exchanges, critics say it runs counter to the goal of greater access to health care. The city estimates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worries at Montefiore Medical Center</title>
		<link>http://bronxink.org/2010/03/23/5759-worries-at-montefiore-medical-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Butrymowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Selamawit Gebrekidan At the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx there is concern that the new bill will cut in half the annual funds the hospital had received from the government for low-income patient care. The medical center expects to receive only $50 million in what is known as the Disproportionate Share Hospital fund. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“This will mean less time with each patient” – Brooklyn Doc</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Butrymowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by K. S. Nikhil Kumar A Brooklyn doctor of 25 years believes that the health care reform legislation is not the right direction to be moving in because it puts more pressure on professionals like him, instead of on the insurance industry. The number of patients will increase as a result of the reform he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing homes wary</title>
		<link>http://bronxink.org/2010/03/23/5753-nursing-homes-wary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Butrymowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Sarah Butrymowicz It’s too soon to say how nursing homes in the Bronx – and all over the country – will feel the impact of the health care bill, but there are some causes for concern, experts say. Patrick Cucinelli, senior director of public policy solutions at New York Association of Homes and Services [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apprehension among Brooklyn pharmacists</title>
		<link>http://bronxink.org/2010/03/23/5751-apprehension-among-brooklyn-pharmacists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Butrymowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Danielle Bengsch The reaction among a sampling of Brooklyn pharmacists to the bill’s passage ranges skepticism to confusion about what its impact will be. “We just don’t know yet what is going to happen,” said Derek Durham of Prospect Garden Pharmacy in Park Slope. He hopes to get some information from the pharmaceutical board. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Councilor says bill falls short</title>
		<link>http://bronxink.org/2010/03/23/5749-city-councilor-says-bill-falls-short/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Butrymowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Matthew Huisman Longtime community activist Charles Barron, who has represented the 42nd district of Brownsville and Canarsie as well as parts of East New York and Flatbush for nine years, said the new health care bill creates more questions than it answers due to the size and scale of the legislation. “Before the bill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Assemblyman says healthcare bill’s reach remains unknown</title>
		<link>http://bronxink.org/2010/03/23/5746-state-assemblyman-says-healthcare-bill%e2%80%99s-reach-remains-unknown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Butrymowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mary Plummer Late in the afternoon Monday, New York State Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, Democrat – 50th District, hadn’t heard a word from his constituents on the passage of yesterday’s healthcare legislation. Speaking from Albany, he said he was pleased with the passage of the healthcare bill. But he wasn’t sure exactly what the bill will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brooklyn’s unhappy republicans</title>
		<link>http://bronxink.org/2010/03/23/5743-brooklyn%e2%80%99s-unhappy-republicans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Butrymowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Danielle Bengsch Republicans willing to speak about the bill’s passage were either unhappy or outraged.  Leon Nadrowski is a surgeon, internist and speaker for the Republicans in Brooklyn. He is also local leader of the Republican Party in the 50th Assembly District that includes Williamsburg and Greenpoint. “I find socialized medicine is on the horizon,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The cost for small businesses</title>
		<link>http://bronxink.org/2010/03/23/5740-the-cost-for-small-businesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Butrymowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Matthew Huisman Carl Hum, president of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, said the health care bill will help expand the coverage offered to the workforce and emphasized that a healthy workforce is essential for any successful business. “From a business perspective it only makes sense that health care is provided for employees,” Hum said, referring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bronx and Brooklyn Health Care at the Starting Line</title>
		<link>http://bronxink.org/2010/03/23/5736-bronx-and-brooklyn-health-care-at-the-starting-line/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Butrymowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jennifer Brookland As hard-fought health insurance legislation comes across President Obama’s desk, the economic problems of the Bronx are apparent in the places people get their insurance. One in five people in the Bronx were on Medicaid as of 2008, the highest percentage of all the boroughs, according to city data. About 180,000 people [...]]]></description>
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