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<title><![CDATA[Ellen Mackercher]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Medical Alliance, Medical Society, Colon cancer screening, healthy living, healthy living habits, Children's health & education, drug and alcohol rehab, various psychiatric and social topics.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Oregon Health Insurance Reform]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:11:27 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[View the current Prioritized List
Beginning in 1987, a group of Oregonians, appointed by Gov. Neil Goldschmidt, including health care providers and consumers, business, labor, insurers and lawmakers, agreed on a common objective — keep Oregonians healthy. They developed a political strategy to attain their objective, answering three main questions about Oregon's health plan: who is covered, what is covered, how is it financed and delivered. They agreed that:
• All citizens should have universal access to a basic level of care
• Society is responsible for financing care for poor people
• There must be a process to define a “basic” level of care
• The process must be based on criteria that are publicly debated, reflect a consensus of social values, and consider the good of society as a whole
• The health care delivery system must encourage use of services and procedures which are effective and appropriate, and discourage over-treatment
• Health care is one important factor affecting health; funding for health care must be balanced with other programs which also affect health
• Funding must be explicit and economically sustainable
• There mu]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Screening colonoscopy]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:19:11 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Colon cancer is a preventable disease. Prevented by early detection of colon polyps and their removal. Who needs screening colonoscopy? Anyone over the age of 50 who has not had one in the last 10 previous years. Anyone who has a family history of colon polyps needs colonoscopy 5 years from the age of the youngest member of the family group who has had colon polyps. for example if mom had polyps (adenoma) at age 40, 1st degree relatives need colonoscopy beginning at age 35. And 10 years younger than a 1st degree relative is diagnosed with colon cancer. For example if your father had colon cancer at age 40, screening should begin at age 30. If you have had colon polyps, then you and all of you 1st degree relatives need screening every 5 years.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[American Medical Association]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:01:08 EDT</pubDate>
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