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		<title>Health reform: Dead? or not dead?</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/02/03/health-reform-dead-or-not-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current status of the health reform legislation in the nation&#8217;s capital reminds of us the popular quizzes that challenge players to speculate as to whether celebrities are dead yet.
If you asked opponents of health reform, they&#8217;d surely tell you that – like the failed health reform efforts of 1994 – the current Democratic proposals  never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Senate bill really unfit for consumption?</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/12/21/is-the-senate-bill-really-unfit-for-consumption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Jonathan Cohn of the New Republic said today what a lot of liberals have been saying about the Senate bill. Basically, it&#8217;s been stretched and pulled like a gob of saltwater taffy as it morphed into something barely acceptable to barely enough Democrats, but also largely disappointing to a large contingent of other liberals (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Lieberman continues to play Grinch Who Stole Health Reform</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/12/15/joe-lieberman-continues-to-play-grinch-who-stole-health-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
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Anyone who thought passage of a health reform bill in 2009 would be easy, given the Democratic majority in Congress, was deluded. To think that all of Congressional Democrats – and the Independents they court – would vote in lock step was just plain fantasy.
But even Democrats who knew reform legislation would be all about [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/11/19/when-it-comes-to-reform-legislation-size-really-does-matter/#comments</comments>
		<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>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>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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		<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>If Dems haven&#8217;t led or followed, it&#8217;s time to get out of the way, columnist says</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/10/26/if-dems-havent-led-or-followed-its-time-to-get-out-of-the-way-columnist-says/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/10/26/if-dems-havent-led-or-followed-its-time-to-get-out-of-the-way-columnist-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/?p=1129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Will Democrats unite to allow an up-or-down vote on health reform legislation? Robert Creamer explained on the Huffington Post this morning why he thinks it&#8217;s in Democratic legislators&#8217; best interests to pull together. Creamer&#8217;s reasons include, briefly:

That Americans have already swung overwhelmingly in support of the public option.
A vote to defeat the filibuster isn&#8217;t a [...]]]></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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/?p=997</guid>
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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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		<title>North Dakota Dems cry &#8220;Bad (Blue) Dog!&#8221; &#8211; hit senator on nose with newspaper</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/10/07/north-dakota-dems-cry-bad-blue-dog-hit-senator-on-nose-with-newspaper/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2009/10/07/north-dakota-dems-cry-bad-blue-dog-hit-senator-on-nose-with-newspaper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, we know that it&#8217;s the conservative members of the House that are called &#8220;Blue Dogs&#8221; (not members of the Senate), but what a perfect visual for the actions of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL party&#8217;s put-down of its own senator, Kent Conrad (D-ND).
The party&#8217;s members recently reaffirmed a commitment to an even much more progressive health [...]]]></description>
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