<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809722587456050030.comments</id><updated>2010-07-18T09:33:23.646-07:00</updated><category term='obesity'/><category term='c-section'/><category term='cost benefit'/><category term='economy'/><category term='evidence based medicine'/><category term='cost effectiveness'/><category term='prescription drugs'/><category term='asymmetric information'/><category term='equality'/><category term='cost utility'/><category term='marathons'/><category term='incentives'/><category term='patents'/><category term='health care economcis'/><category term='cost variation'/><category term='end of life'/><category term='pay for performance'/><category term='spurious relationship'/><category term='food'/><category term='evergreening'/><category term='cost of illness'/><category term='health care economics'/><category term='women&apos;s health'/><category term='elasticity'/><category term='gender'/><category term='Media effects'/><category term='vaccines'/><category term='socialization'/><category term='cognitive dissonance'/><category term='consumer sentiment'/><title type='text'>Blog of Birm</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://birmster.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5809722587456050030/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://birmster.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Birmster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03864483679812765484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L2SDa7Q_KYY/T6V2VTDxuWI/AAAAAAAAELw/-K671RCboqQ/s220/RD.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>7</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809722587456050030.post-3139826409236538691</id><published>2010-07-18T09:33:23.640-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-18T09:33:23.640-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Nice Blog - You may find http://ceareg.blogspot.co...</title><content type='html'>Nice Blog - You may find http://ceareg.blogspot.com/ interesting</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5809722587456050030/4148855930870420042/comments/default/3139826409236538691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5809722587456050030/4148855930870420042/comments/default/3139826409236538691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://birmster.blogspot.com/2010/07/methods-of-effectiveness-research-intro.html?showComment=1279470803640#c3139826409236538691' title=''/><author><name>James D. Chambers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06108526123646746205</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://birmster.blogspot.com/2010/07/methods-of-effectiveness-research-intro.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809722587456050030.post-4148855930870420042' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5809722587456050030/posts/default/4148855930870420042' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1580254638'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.displayTime' value='July 18, 2010 9:33 AM'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809722587456050030.post-5051753523060017345</id><published>2009-08-10T06:38:45.974-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-10T06:38:45.974-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I just came across a blog posting by Graham Glass,...</title><content type='html'>I just came across a blog posting by Graham Glass, a developer of inforamtion systems, in which he suggests &lt;a href="http://grahamglass.blogs.com/main/2009/08/one-approach-for-funding-healthcare-and-education.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;One Approach for funding Healthcare and Education&lt;/a&gt;.  His perspective may shed an interesting light on health care funding.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5809722587456050030/29337976647594446/comments/default/5051753523060017345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5809722587456050030/29337976647594446/comments/default/5051753523060017345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://birmster.blogspot.com/2009/07/information-problems.html?showComment=1249911525974#c5051753523060017345' title=''/><author><name>Seeing Anew</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13367702378442449544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://birmster.blogspot.com/2009/07/information-problems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809722587456050030.post-29337976647594446' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5809722587456050030/posts/default/29337976647594446' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1475741052'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.displayTime' value='August 10, 2009 6:38 AM'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809722587456050030.post-2806020287567057165</id><published>2009-08-06T17:09:31.494-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-06T17:09:31.494-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hey Lauren! I saw this article in passing awhile b...</title><content type='html'>Hey Lauren! I saw this article in passing awhile back and thought it was interesting too. I did my first triathlon last weekend and the reason being that I had all the extra time to train for it! Some interesting points are made, good luck on your marathon!</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5809722587456050030/1263909030161211399/comments/default/2806020287567057165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5809722587456050030/1263909030161211399/comments/default/2806020287567057165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://birmster.blogspot.com/2009/07/wsj-does-slower-economy-increase.html?showComment=1249603771494#c2806020287567057165' title=''/><author><name>Rachel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12853706677792587668</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://birmster.blogspot.com/2009/07/wsj-does-slower-economy-increase.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809722587456050030.post-1263909030161211399' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5809722587456050030/posts/default/1263909030161211399' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-438248816'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.displayTime' value='August 6, 2009 5:09 PM'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809722587456050030.post-8151744206405107328</id><published>2009-07-23T14:16:37.321-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-23T14:16:37.321-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes! Although to be fair- I&amp;#39;m not sure what th...</title><content type='html'>Yes! Although to be fair- I&amp;#39;m not sure what the actual shape of the curve is. I think it&amp;#39;s fair to assume it exhibits diminishing returns--but perhaps not at that rate.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5809722587456050030/6678273420917604358/comments/default/8151744206405107328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5809722587456050030/6678273420917604358/comments/default/8151744206405107328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://birmster.blogspot.com/2009/06/economics-of-health-care-is-one-of.html?showComment=1248383797321#c8151744206405107328' title=''/><author><name>Birmster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03864483679812765484</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_s95JLtM468s/SkGWgXfMXOI/AAAAAAAAD9M/tuvjRsGd2Ew/S220/4thgraders.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to 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rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5809722587456050030/6678273420917604358/comments/default/6010271980661843544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5809722587456050030/6678273420917604358/comments/default/6010271980661843544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://birmster.blogspot.com/2009/06/economics-of-health-care-is-one-of.html?showComment=1247954327013#c6010271980661843544' title=''/><author><name>dan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03701183276530059716</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://birmster.blogspot.com/2009/06/economics-of-health-care-is-one-of.html' 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