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        <title><![CDATA[Austin Frakt - Economist]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Austin Frakt is an economist at the Veterans Administration's Boston Health-Care System, an associate professor at the Boston University School of Public Health and an adjunct associate professor at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He blogs at the Incidental Economist.
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            <title><![CDATA[How to Make a Dent in Crazy-High Drug Prices]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Some of the most expensive medicines are among the least effective. Why does that make sense?]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2018 11:00:15 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[It Will Take Both Parties to Save Obamacare]]></title>
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