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	<title>HEALTH REFORM WATCH</title>
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	<description>A Web Log of the Seton Hall University School of Law,      Health Law &#38; Policy Program</description>
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		<title>NEW JERSEY SUED FOR CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS IN DENYING IMMIGRANT PARENTS ACCESS TO STATE-FUNDED MEDICAID</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Class Action Seeks Relief for 12,000 Lawful Permanent Residents Affected by Immigration-Based Medicaid Cuts
NEWARK, NJ - Seton Hall Law School&#8217;s Center for Social Justice  and Gibbons, P.C., filed a class action complaint today in New Jersey,  alleging that the State&#8217;s Department of Human Services (&#8221;Agency&#8221;) is  violating permanent residents&#8217; equal protection rights [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2010/09/02/new-jersey-sued-for-constitutional-violations-in-denying-immigrant-parents-access-to-state-funded-medicaid/</link>
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		<title>Fourth Annual Student Health Law Conference To Be Held at Seton Hall Law on October 22nd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American Society of Law, Medicine &#38; Ethics (ASLME) and Seton Hall University School of Law will co-sponsor the Fourth Annual Student Health Law Conference: Taking the Health Law Career Path on Friday, October 22, 2010, in Newark, New Jersey.
This conference, which is attended by law students from law schools throughout the country, seeks to expose law students [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2010/09/01/fourth-annual-student-health-law-conference-to-be-held-at-seton-hall-law-on-october-22nd/</link>
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		<title>Contesting Depression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social disagreement about the medicalization of experience is intensifying.  Psychiatrist Allen Frances complains that the draft DSM is too quick to pathologize grief:
A startling suggestion is buried in the fine print describing proposed changes for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — perhaps better known as the D.S.M. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2010/08/31/contesting-depression/</link>
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		<title>Renewed Efforts to Reduce Industry Funding of CMEs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week&#8217;s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported on the challenges that certain medical schools and medical centers across the country are facing as they decrease or eliminate industry funding of their continuing medical education (CME) programs.  These institutions have shown concern over the potential conflicts of interest when pharmaceutical and medical device [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2010/08/30/renewed-efforts-to-reduce-industry-funding-of-cmes/</link>
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		<title>Good News for Health Care Reform Implementation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HCR implementation is steaming ahead.  Jonathan Cohn lays out some of the key issues in a recent article in The American Prospect.  A restrictive definition of &#8220;grandfathered plans&#8221; (which are not subject to the Affordable Care Act (ACA)) was an early victory for consumer advocates.  Coverage appeal rules will soon be hotly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2010/08/29/good-news-for-health-care-reform-implementation/</link>
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		<title>New Interim Federal External Review Process for Health Insurance Appeals Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As reported earlier in New Rules for Insurance Appeals, the departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Labor issued interim final rules on July 23, allowing patient appeals of health insurance coverage.  On August 23, the U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) issued Technical Release 2010-01, regarding &#8220;Interim Procedures for Federal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2010/08/26/new-interim-federal-external-review-process-for-health-insurance-appeals-announced/</link>
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		<title>Center for Health &#038; Pharmaceutical Law &#038; Policy Submits Comments on Conflicts of Interest in Research to the National Institutes of Health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On August 19, 2010, on behalf of Seton Hall Law&#8217;s Center for Health &#38; Pharmaceutical Law &#38; Policy, Seton Hall Law Professors Kathleen Boozang and Carl Coleman, along with Research Fellow Kate Greenwood, submitted comments on the National Institutes of Health&#8217;s proposed revisions to its regulations governing conflicts of interest in federally-funded research.  While the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2010/08/25/center-for-health-pharmaceutical-law-policy-submits-comments-on-conflicts-of-interest-in-research-to-the-national-institutes-of-health/</link>
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		<title>Florida Attorney General McCollum Falls Victim to Collective Mandate, Loses Bid for GOP Nomination for Governor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Bill McCollum, noted of late for spearheading the state suits against the Individual Mandate in health reform, has lost his bid for the Republican Party nomination for governor of Florida. Political newcomer Rick Scott, a self styled &#8220;conservative outsider&#8221; and former hospital corporation CEO, poured over $30 million of his own money into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2010/08/24/florida-attorney-general-mccollum-falls-victim-to-collective-mandate-loses-bid-for-gop-nomination-for-governor/</link>
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		<title>Finding an Understanding Between Doctors and Patients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A general perception has been that doctors choose their profession over their patients. The perception takes shape as medical professionals sometimes choose to protect their profession over the chance to improve the quality of medical care&#8211; whether doctors refusing to report a colleague&#8217;s mistake or perhaps even hindering the efforts of a doctor rating system.
So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2010/08/23/finding-an-understanding-between-doctors-and-patients/</link>
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		<title>PPACA and the Growing Shortage of Pediatric Subspecialists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the course of this year, a spate of articles and op eds have highlighted a growing shortage of pediatric subspecialists.  Earlier his month, Amy Mansue, CEO of Children&#8217;s Specialized Hospital here in New Jersey, addressed the problem in a very interesting post on the National Association of Children&#8217;s Hospitals&#8217; With All Our Might blog.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2010/08/22/ppaca-and-the-growing-shortage-of-pediatric-subspecialists/</link>
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