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		<title>Meet my mother, the death panel</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/08/04/meet-my-mother-the-death-panel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/08/04/meet-my-mother-the-death-panel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death panels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[end-of-life care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the spring and summer of last year, the debate about health reform exploded over an issue that was not, in my estimation, worthy of a firecracker-sized pop. The issue was advanced care planning consultations, and looking back now, it seems to me the most odd point of contention that could have been raised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CEO gives health insurance industry&#8217;s fight in recent health reform battle a big, fat F</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/08/03/ceo-gives-health-insurance-industrys-fight-in-recent-health-reform-battle-a-big-fat-f/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/08/03/ceo-gives-health-insurance-industrys-fight-in-recent-health-reform-battle-a-big-fat-f/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aetna]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Karen Ignani]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/?p=1760</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We know it&#8217;s stating the obvious to say that the health insurance industry was not pleased by the outcome of the battle over health reform that concluded in March.
But this article on Bloomberg shows just how bad the battle went, according to industry execs, whose ideas now include jettisoning Karen Ignani from her position as head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;No&#8217; may not mean &#8216;no&#8217; for health insurers under new health reform provisions</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/07/23/no-may-not-mean-no-for-health-insurers-under-new-health-reform-provisions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/07/23/no-may-not-mean-no-for-health-insurers-under-new-health-reform-provisions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer protections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Barack Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/?p=1744</guid>
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When you start talking about the recently passed health reform legislation, there&#8217;s a good chance you&#8217;re headed for an argument. But it&#8217;s hard to see how anyone – other than health insurance companies – could argue against the consumer protection provisions announced by the Obama Administration yesterday.
Anyone who&#8217;s fought it out with an insurance carrier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything you always wanted to know about health reform &#8230; but didn&#8217;t know you could ask</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/07/15/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-health-reform-but-didnt-know-you-could-ask/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/07/15/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-health-reform-but-didnt-know-you-could-ask/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uninsured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Barack Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/?p=1721</guid>
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Say what you will about the recently passed health reform legislation – good or bad – but you can&#8217;t say that its supporters are withholding information about what&#8217;s ahead.
With mid-term elections around the corner, the Obama Administration is readying a Lollapalooza of a dog-and-pony show to highlight its accomplishments to date – and the Patient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New high-risk insurance pool program for states isn&#8217;t &#8220;risky business&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/06/30/new-high-risk-insurance-pool-program-for-states-isnt-risky-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/06/30/new-high-risk-insurance-pool-program-for-states-isnt-risky-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high-risk insurance pools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uninsured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow, many states will start taking applications for insurance coverage through the temporary high-risk insurance pools established through this year&#8217;s historic health reform legislation. As the Associated Press points out, it&#8217;s a &#8220;huge investment&#8221; by the federal government.
It&#8217;s no secret that many critics believe the pools are a huge mistake. Though the funding for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health reform is being hated less.</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/06/24/health-reform-is-being-hated-less/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/06/24/health-reform-is-being-hated-less/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Barack]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/?p=1687</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you listen to John Boehner, health reform is not only completely abhorrent to the critics who pummeled it for months on end, but it&#8217;s now also uniformly despised by everyone, everywhere.
In reality, health reform is probably viewed negatively (ranging from &#8220;completely loathed&#8221; to &#8220;not really certain what it will do&#8221;) by about half of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. is Number Seven, but it appears we&#8217;re trying harder.</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/06/23/the-u-s-is-number-seven-but-it-appears-were-trying-harder/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/06/23/the-u-s-is-number-seven-but-it-appears-were-trying-harder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialized medicine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/?p=1672</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Like Avis, the United States is apparently not Number One – not in health care performance at least – when compared against a bunch of other countries. And they&#8217;re countries that repeatedly got a really bad rap during the health care debate as being examples of poor quality, inefficiency, and – worst of all – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama: Go back on health reform? Let&#8217;s not and say we didn&#8217;t.</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/06/22/obama-go-back-on-health-reform-lets-not-and-say-we-didnt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/06/22/obama-go-back-on-health-reform-lets-not-and-say-we-didnt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform repeal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patient bil of rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Barack Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/?p=1667</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama likes his health reform legislation. Go figure.
And today, he also gave consumers more reasons to like the legislation – namely a bunch of consumer protections the administration is calling the &#8220;patient bill of rights.&#8221;
How about reversing course? The POTUS said – in a nutshell – &#8220;Let&#8217;s not and say we didn&#8217;t.&#8221;
Happy 90-Day Birthday, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Find out what health reform has done for you lately.</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/06/22/find-out-what-health-reform-has-done-for-you-lately/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/06/22/find-out-what-health-reform-has-done-for-you-lately/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uninsured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katherine Sebelius]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/?p=1659</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Seriously. Ask, &#8220;What have you done for me lately?&#8221;
Do it today – submit your questions about health reform progress to About.com. Maybe if you ask nicely, Katherine Sebelius will actually answer your question during a live event streamed tomorrow at 3 p.m. (Eastern) at Whitehouse.gov/live.
Questions that probably WON&#8217;T get answers:

&#8220;Why are you trying to kill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans prepare to raise their voice against health reform this fall; Democrats ready to lend them a bullhorn</title>
		<link>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/06/21/republicans-prepare-to-raise-their-voice-against-health-reform-this-fall-democrats-ready-to-lend-them-a-bullhorn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/06/21/republicans-prepare-to-raise-their-voice-against-health-reform-this-fall-democrats-ready-to-lend-them-a-bullhorn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/?p=1629</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You know that old saying about how even bad PR is good PR? Well, The Nation has a pretty decent argument for its validity. Seems like the more Republicans turn up their messages about the recently passed legislation, the more they&#8217;re turning off listeners to their arguments. November will be interesting. That&#8217;s for sure.
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