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	<title>Peter Ubel &#187; Politics</title>
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	<itunes:summary>on Science, Policy, Health, Well-Being and Ethics</itunes:summary>
	<itunes:author>Peter Ubel</itunes:author>
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		<title>Tiger Woods and Health Care Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American presidents have been trying to reform our health care system since at least the Nixon era, but with only limited success. Past reform efforts have failed for many reasons. For starters, the U.S. health care system is complex, with the medical industry making up almost 1/6 of our economy. But perhaps the biggest obstacle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Succulent Sandwiches and Consumable Calories:  Who&#8217;s Counting?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 11:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Behavioral Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health & Well-being]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My "Scientocracy" blog on Psychology Today: Archive]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Last summer, New York City made a great stride toward promoting public health, by requiring chain restaurants to prominently publish calorie counts alongside their menus. This type of regulation holds the promise of improving people&#8217;s eating habits, without restricting their freedom to order whatever they want.
Theoretically, this new regulation should help consumers make better choices: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling Conflicted about Greed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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With jobs disappearing faster than a major league fastball, the public is understandably irate at the damage that greed has wrought upon our economy. Financiers destroy their companies, and our retirement portfolios, and then complain when their bonuses are less than 7 figures.
The greedy behavior in recent headlines has not been limited to Wall Street. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientocracy: Policy making that reflects human nature</title>
		<link>http://www.peterubel.com/2009/01/scientocracy-policy-making-that-reflects-human-nature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My "Scientocracy" blog on Psychology Today: Archive]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The key to good policymaking is to understand human nature.
Want to increase how much money people save? You better know what they will do if you change the tax code. Want to reduce the threat of terrorism? All the security in the world won&#8217;t suffice if you don&#8217;t, at the same time, find ways to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Death Wish</title>
		<link>http://www.peterubel.com/2009/01/republican-death-wish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;With luck, Ted Kennedy will be dead soon.&#8221;
She uttered these words two minutes after expressing hope that the nation would rally behind Obama. A lifelong Republican, she had voted for McCain. I expect she harbored concerned about Obama&#8217;s terrorist pals and his anti-American pastor. But with Obama now newly elected as president, she was already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wolverine Football and the Presidential Honeymoon</title>
		<link>http://www.peterubel.com/2008/12/wolverine-football-and-the-presidential-honeymoon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If President-elect Obama wants to know the challenges he can expect to contend with in his first 100 days of office, his &#8220;honeymoon period,&#8221; he need look no further than the state of Michigan.
I&#8217;m not talking about what he can learn from Michigan about unemployment, where we are #1!
I&#8217;m not talking about lessons he can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report from Last Week&#8217;s World Economic Forum</title>
		<link>http://www.peterubel.com/2008/11/report-from-last-weeks-world-economic-forum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peterubel.com/2008/11/report-from-last-weeks-world-economic-forum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I had the pleasure of participating in what the World Economic Forum founder, Klaus Schwab, described as the planet&#8217;s largest brainstorming session. Approximately 700 leading thinkers (and me, too) converged upon Dubai to discuss the greatest economic challenges facing the world, from the current economic crisis to future crises. People from 6 continents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insane Soccer Dads and Vitriolic Presidential Campaigns</title>
		<link>http://www.peterubel.com/2008/10/insane-soccer-dads-and-vitriolic-presidential-campaigns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peterubel.com/2008/10/insane-soccer-dads-and-vitriolic-presidential-campaigns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in the final stretch of the presidential campaign, things are getting even uglier, with the other side lobbing misleading verbal attacks while our side tries to remain above the fray. With this kind of negativity and distortion, it is hard to imagine the winning candidate being able to pull the country back together.
But perhaps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Health Care Never Wins Elections</title>
		<link>http://www.peterubel.com/2008/10/why-health-care-never-wins-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peterubel.com/2008/10/why-health-care-never-wins-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite Barack Obama&#8217;s recent surge in the polls, much could change between now and election day. While it looks like this election will be decided by the economy, unexpected events could dramatically change the campaign narrative. Terrorists could conduct an attack inside the US. Obama, despite his two years of steady poise, could say something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presidential Debates Round Two and Three: Show Us That You Care</title>
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		<comments>http://www.peterubel.com/2008/10/presidential-debates-round-two-and-three-show-us-that-you-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama would like the next two debates to be about the economy. John McCain would like them to be about anything but the economy, preferably with plenty of discussion of 60&#8242;s radicals and crazy preachers.
McCain won&#8217;t get his way, of course. We will hear discussions of the bailout, taxes, health care and the like, [...]]]></description>
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