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	<title>Lead Time</title>
	
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		<title>Must-Read from Paul Levy Blog</title>
		<link>http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/2009/08/must-read-from-paul-levy-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Molpus</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/?p=784</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of summers ago I was doing my usual run in the neighborhood on a hot, muggy weekend afternoon.  I came to a turn where I usually go to the left. For some reason that day I turned to the right. I had never turned that way before.
I came across an elderly gentleman in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Reform in the Wind</title>
		<link>http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/2009/08/healthcare-reform-in-the-wind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Molpus</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/?p=781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A decade ago in my home state of Tennessee we were faced with state government deficits that seemed to be irreconcilable. The problem was that we have no state income tax, and our revenue model is based on a relatively high base rate of state income tax, which when combined with the local options can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Healthcare, the Last 20 Percent IS the Tough Part</title>
		<link>http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/2009/07/in-healthcare-the-last-20-percent-is-the-tough-part/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/2009/07/in-healthcare-the-last-20-percent-is-the-tough-part/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Molpus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[axelrod]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Dog Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pelosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recess]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/?p=772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You have to openly question how close the House Democrats truly are to a unified bill on healthcare. Speaker Nancy Pelosi says &#8220;we will move forward&#8221; while the conservative Blue Dog Democrats continue to say whoa.
The only part of agreement seems to be that the original administration deadline for agreement on the bill by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospitals Make a “Side Deal”</title>
		<link>http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/2009/07/hospitals-make-a-side-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/2009/07/hospitals-make-a-side-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Molpus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/?p=761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In any negotiation it never hurts to give up what you never had coming anyway, which may explain why a trifecta of America&#8217;s Hospital organizations&#8211;including the AHA, FAH and the Catholic Health Association&#8211;now appear willing to part with$155 billion in concessions over 10 years , as the Washington Post and Politico report.
What makes this such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still Too Fat in Dixie</title>
		<link>http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/2009/07/still-too-fat-in-dixie/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/2009/07/still-too-fat-in-dixie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Molpus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Learnabout]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/?p=756</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a proud son of the South. I have a 1961 Chevrolet pickup truck. I know how to separate good barbecue from plain  roasted pork. I accept no green bean that has not been cooked for at least a day in bacon. I can make buttermilk biscuits from scratch. I know the difference between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scrushy Judgment Anti-Climactic</title>
		<link>http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/2009/06/scrushy-judgment-anti-climactic/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/2009/06/scrushy-judgment-anti-climactic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Molpus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HealthSouth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scrushy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/?p=752</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Somehow I feel certain there are a lot more hotheads in Alabama today about the University of Alabama&#8217;s textbook cheating scandal with the NCAA than there is over a federal judge&#8217;s ruling that former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy be ordered to pay $2.87 billion in re-compensation to HealthSouth for accounting fraud.
Lot of good it will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CBO: $1 Trillion Worth of Healthcare Only Buys So Much</title>
		<link>http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/2009/06/cbo-1-trillion-worth-of-healthcare-only-buys-so-much/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/2009/06/cbo-1-trillion-worth-of-healthcare-only-buys-so-much/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Molpus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Health Choices Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kennedy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/?p=750</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The current healthcare budget debate includes such ridiculous numbers that it&#8217;s easy to forget that even staggering sums like $1 trillion are not the blanket they are cut out to be.  The Congressional Budget Office issued a preliminary analysis  of the &#8220;Affordable Health Choices Act&#8221; being promulgated by Sen. Edward Kenndy and the Senate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Co-Ops a Compromise or a Capitulation?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/2009/06/co-ops-a-compromise-or-a-capitulation/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/2009/06/co-ops-a-compromise-or-a-capitulation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Molpus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C-op]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compromise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conrad]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/?p=741</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Compromise is not always a victory, at least if you look at the act of meeting in the middle somehow negates the original goal the two sides were working toward. In that sense one has to wonder of the idea of healthcare &#8220;co-ops&#8221; proffered by Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) is a compromise that in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Obama Pull Healthcare Reform Out of the Mud?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/2009/06/can-obama-pull-healthcare-reform-out-of-the-mud/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/2009/06/can-obama-pull-healthcare-reform-out-of-the-mud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Molpus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baucus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politico]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/?p=727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere down in the list of every President&#8217;s bag of political levers is knowing when to use public attention to get the Congressional back office talks unstuck. Whenever you hear a President say it is &#8220;make-or-break&#8221; time for a piece of policy&#8211;as Obama did earlier this week on healthcare reform&#8211;you know things are not going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospitals Need Innovators, Too</title>
		<link>http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/2009/06/hospitals-need-innovators-too/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/2009/06/hospitals-need-innovators-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Molpus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovator]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.healthleadersmedia.com/leadtime/?p=723</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My colleague Phil Betbeze makes a compelling argument that what healthcare needs right now are a cadre of highly-skilled operational masters to run efficient hospitals, and not necessarily innovators or change agents to flip the paradigm. It is true that often those leaders we think of as innovators are more like &#8220;dreamers,&#8221; whose creativity often [...]]]></description>
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