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		<title>Pre-existing Conditions</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/04/01/pre-existing-conditions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it about this business?
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece called ‘Tone Deaf,’ which spoke to the health insurance industry’s propensity for shooting itself in the foot, with ever more powerful weapons as time goes on.
That was before the health care reform bill was enacted into law.
But no sooner had the bill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tone Deaf</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/02/22/tone-deaf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What, you might ask yourself, would cause a health insurance company coming off a quarter where it had multi-billion dollar profits to slam individual policyholders with rate increases up to 39%?
Well, let’s see. 
Maybe the insurer is headquartered on Mars and is unaware that a debate to reform the health care system has been raging in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blood Is Boiling</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/12/21/blood-is-boiling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My blood started boiling as I read a Dec. 15  article in the New York Times  coming in to work about how executives of three large banks—Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup&#8211;did not show up at the White House for a meeting with President Obama that was to deal with getting these institutions to make more loans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staying On Message</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/12/03/staying-on-message/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to believe that not only are we drawing close to the end of another year, but also closing in on the end of the first decade of the Third Millennium. 
(I already expect to hear from pedants and calendar officials informing me that in strict terms a decade goes from a year beginning with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street&#8217;s Marie Antoinette</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/11/23/wall-streets-marie-antoinette/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if Goldman Sachs did not already have enough image problems as the biggest pig at the Wall Street trough, it is now the most serious contender for the 2009 Marie Antoinette Award, which recognizes singular achievements in out-of-touch condescension.
Goldman has made no secret of the fact that it has set aside some $16.7 billion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hail Mary Pass</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/10/19/hail-mary-pass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Far be it from me to use football terminology, but it sure seemed like America’s Health Insurance Plans threw a Hail Mary pass when it issued an eleventh-hour report that it apparently hoped would throw a giant-sized monkey wrench into the glacially-coalescing health care reform legislation being incubated by the Senate Finance Committee.
The Finance Committee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asking The Wolves</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/09/22/asking-the-wolves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit I don’t know any sheep farmers, but even I know that it’s not customary for these folks to ask the wolf for suggestions about protecting the sheep.  Questions about fences and guard dogs are not something about which the farmer would consult with the predator.   This is not horse (or sheep) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Option</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/07/13/public-option/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/?p=56</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a driver, then it&#8217;s likely that the only time you pay attention to speed limit signs is when you spot a cop car parked on the side of the road or when (even more inconveniently) the cop is on the road doing the speed limit and no one dares go faster, meaning you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battle Royal</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/06/13/battle-royal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If this was a sports event or some really stadium-packing group like the Rolling Stones or U2, it would have been sold out in minutes and the scalpers out in force.  But as the event I am referring to is the battle over health care reform that will be fought out in the halls of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tantalus Redux</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/06/03/tantalus-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t remember for a fact, but it seems to me that I&#8217;ve already used the mythic image of Sisyphus to describe the life insurance industry&#8217;s seemingly doomed challenge of getting Congress to approve an optional federal charter.  Just when the king of Corinth gets the stone almost to the top of the hill, down [...]]]></description>
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