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	<title>healthinsurance.org &#187; Health Care Reform</title>
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		<title>When it comes to reform legislation, size really does matter.</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/11/19/when-it-comes-to-reform-legislation-size-really-does-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/?p=1290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that has bugged us for months and months is health care opponents&#8217; preoccupation with the number of pages in the health care bills that have been introduced in the House and Senate. The most recent bill to emerge is the Senate bill unveiled by Harry Reid yesterday and SURPRISE &#8230; it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Being uninsured can kill you&#8217;: No-brainer? or Brainer?</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/11/17/being-uninsured-can-kill-you-no-brainer-or-brainer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/11/17/being-uninsured-can-kill-you-no-brainer-or-brainer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/?p=1267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We weren&#8217;t the tiniest bit surprised by a new study on emergency care that revealed that patients who lacked health insurance were almost two times more likely to die from car accidents and other traumatic injuries than patients who had health plans.
Our response: Duh.
And, apparently, Kevin Drum, who blogs over at Mother Jones, felt the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How would health reform help or hurt?</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/11/16/how-would-health-reform-help-or-hurt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/11/16/how-would-health-reform-help-or-hurt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/?p=1261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of stories out there about the nightmares already faced in the nation&#8217;s existing health care system. But folks really want to know how coverage will look after health reform legislation is passed. (We&#8217;re assuming it will be.)
That why we liked this story, which examines what the current legislative proposals would mean to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Somebody get Harry Reid some steroids. Stat.</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/11/11/somebody-get-harry-reid-some-steroids-stat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/11/11/somebody-get-harry-reid-some-steroids-stat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/?p=1243</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the House passed its version of health reform legislation last week, the development may have sent chills down the spines of those who oppose the Democrats&#8217; proposed solutions. But a quick read-through of Suzy Khimm&#8217;s piece in The Treatment yesterday should be equally chilling to folks who think the battle over health reform is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. (Or just get health insurance like everyone else.)</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/11/10/do-not-pass-go-do-not-collect-200-or-just-get-health-insurance-like-everyone-else/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/11/10/do-not-pass-go-do-not-collect-200-or-just-get-health-insurance-like-everyone-else/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/?p=1217</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d think opponents of health care would be content with getting Americans worked up about issues like abortion and immigration in order to bog down passage of a health reform bill, but today, bloggers and Tweeters are whispering in a really loud, gasping voice, &#8220;Jail time for folks who don&#8217;t buy health insurance?&#8221;
We&#8217;re not that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween scare comes early for Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/10/30/halloween-scare-comes-early-for-arkansas-senator-blanche-lincoln/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/10/30/halloween-scare-comes-early-for-arkansas-senator-blanche-lincoln/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>

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Arkansas voters to Sen. Blanche Lincoln: &#8220;BOO!&#8221;
It&#8217;s a day before Halloween, but a new poll back home should already be running a chill down Lincoln&#8217;s spine.
As a so-called centrist Democrat she opposes a public option, but that puts her out of step with the 56 percent of Arkansans which support it. That number climbs to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even if states can opt out, will they?</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/10/29/even-if-states-can-opt-out-will-they/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/10/29/even-if-states-can-opt-out-will-they/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/?p=1159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re happy to hear folks asking this question: If Democrats succeed in passing health reform legislation with an opt-out public option as included in Harry Reid&#8217;s Senate bill, would any states actually opt out?
Conservatives seem to like the idea that states could take a pass on a public option provision they dread. But really, Andrew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Option&#8217; is not a failure &#8211; not yet, anyway.</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/10/23/option-is-not-a-failure-not-yet-anyway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/10/23/option-is-not-a-failure-not-yet-anyway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/?p=1109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For a political proposal that appeared ready to be staked in the heart by its opponents just weeks ago, the public option looked surprisingly perky this week. In fact, the only thing that now sounds optional about the proposed reform initiative is the abundance of public option options being floated.
The perkiness is due, of course, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Reverend Reid marries HELP and Finance, will Olympia Snowe get to give away the &#8216;bride?&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/10/14/when-reverend-reid-marries-help-and-finance-will-olympia-snowe-get-to-give-away-the-bride/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/10/14/when-reverend-reid-marries-help-and-finance-will-olympia-snowe-get-to-give-away-the-bride/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were squeals of joy and howls of rage when Olympia Snowe crossed the aisle (or as Republicans would say &#8220;went over to the Dark Side&#8221;) yesterday to vote for the Senate Finance Committee&#8217;s version of a health reform bill. But now that it&#8217;s done, both sides might be rethinking their outbursts.
The Right could well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the real predator please stand up?</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/10/08/will-the-real-predator-please-stand-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/10/08/will-the-real-predator-please-stand-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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A column by Thomas Frank in the Wall Street Journal made us pause and scratch our heads this week because it prompted one of those questions that we think lots of Americans must be asking themselves. The question is simply this:
Are President Obama and his Democratic Party up to no good in this health reform [...]]]></description>
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