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        <title><![CDATA[Bob Kocher - Partner]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Bob Kocher, MD, is a partner at the venture-capital firm Venrock Associates, adjunct professor at Stanford Medical School, and senior fellow at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California.  He was special assistant to President Barack Obama for health care and economic policy from 2009 to 2010.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Doctors Hold the Key to Lower Drug Prices]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A new model would reward physicians for delivering better care by making smarter prescriptions.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:29:17 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>LOWELL, MA - JUNE 17: Medication is displayed in a hand of a patient with a genetic disorder that causes chronic pain. She is down to her last eight pills and unable to get a new prescription. (Photo by Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)</media:description>
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