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<title><![CDATA[Show workers the money: Rising health costs take a bite out of raises]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ We've had a pretty good discussion this year on the public option and on "death panels." But for all the hype over health-care reform, we have not done a very good job of talking about the health-care system itself -- in particular, why our system is so expensive. As a result, we're not doing a very good job of fixing it. There's still time to change that, but not much. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ezra Klein]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[A preemptive strike against Muslim extremism in Switzerland]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ A few weeks ago, I found myself walking through a Swiss village -- okay, it was really a Geneva suburb -- called Nyon. Still, it looked like a village: There was a castle on the hill, and I could see some Roman ruins. There were a few shops and a nice view of the lake. There was no mosque to be seen. There were no women wearing burqas in the carefully landscaped city park. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anne Applebaum]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Tiger's validation complex]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Leave Tiger alone. Enough with the puns -- we get that he's really just a "cheetah" in disguise. Enough with the Barbie-of-the-Day revelations -- we get that he's attracted to a certain type. Enough with the whole thing -- we have far more important things to worry about. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Is the Afghanistan surge worth the lives that will be lost?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ I always read the names. Some days there are only three or four, sometimes as many as 10 or so. I note the ages and their ranks, and also any disparity between the two. I imagine a calamity lurks in the background -- some bad time that somehow resulted in loss of rank. The names I am referring to, of course, are those of the war dead.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=508123309499" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=508123309499" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Cohen]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[E.J. Dionne Jr. on why the Senate must pass health bill by Christmas]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ This is the paradox of the moment: President Obama's speech on Afghanistan and his subsequent jobs summit underscored why it's essential to get a health-care bill done quickly. The calendar of politics has an urgency that the dilatory pace of the U.S. Senate doesn't match. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[E.J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt on parallels between the Iraq, Afghanistan troop surges]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ No wonder conservatives are unhappy with the president. Imagine undermining an announced escalation of troops by simultaneously laying out a schedule for them to step back -- and suggesting that the mission will end if the government that America is trying to help doesn't shape up. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Robert J. Samuelson on our health-care nation]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ President Obama's critics sometimes say that he is engineering a government takeover of health care or even introducing "socialized medicine" into America. These allegations are wildly overblown. Government already dominates health care, one-sixth of the economy. It pays directly or indirectly for roughly half of all health costs. Medicine is pervasively regulated, from drug approvals to nursing-home rules. There is no "free market" in health care. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert J. Samuelson]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Fareed Zakaria on Obama's narrow worldview]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ If you take out just one sentence, Barack Obama's speech on Afghanistan last week was all about focusing and limiting the scope of the U.S. mission in that country. The objectives he detailed were exclusively military: to deny al-Qaeda a haven, reverse the Taliban's momentum and strengthen the Kabul government's security forces. The nation that he was interested in building, he explained, was this one.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=508123315516" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=508123315516" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fareed Zakaria]]></dc:creator>
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