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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>
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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>Yes!</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/03/22/yes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There doesn’t seem to be any point in my pretending not to be thrilled by the historic House vote that sent health care reform legislation to President Obama.   
The victory is even more astounding when you consider that just a few short weeks ago health care reform was being pronounced dead upon the election of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not A Peep</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/02/02/not-a-peep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Funny how one election has thrown everything up in the air.
Of course I’m talking about the election of Scott Brown as the Republican senator from the bluest of states, Massachusetts, on January 19. The result has been that Democrats of all stripes are running scared, while Republicans can’t stop crowing about the renewed vigor that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear President Obama&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/01/21/dear-president-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know you are probably getting tons of advice from all corners about what you should do now in the aftermath of the upset election of Scott Brown, a Republican, as a senator in the bluest of states, Massachusetts.
You, and we, are hearing from the punditocracy that it was a repudiation of your overreaching agenda, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Public</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/12/07/going-public/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So rarely do I find myself agreeing with anything Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., has to say (actually, I don’t think it’s ever happened) that I feel compelled to recognize a gesture of his with which I feel in complete agreement.
Coburn likes to play the spoiler and I believe that was the impetus behind his introducing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas Carol</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/11/12/a-christmas-carol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.  But no, it’s not likely that even the great man is going to be able to bring health care reform legislation to President Obama’s desk by Christmas.
The man that history has picked to be Santa in this particular case doesn’t look the part in any obvious way.  Senate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historic Moment</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/11/09/historic-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House came through for President Obama in his drive for health care reform, but that may be the last piece of good news on the subject that the president has for quite a while.
Even though the vote on the House bill, H.R. 3962, was a squeaker, passing only by a 220-215 tally, it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Landing With A Thud</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/11/05/landing-with-a-thud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of just saying no and being proud of it, the House Republicans came up with an so-called alternative to the Democratic health care bills that have preoccupied us for all these many months. 
This was greeted with all the fanfare of one hand clapping.  Yet, for something so curiously light, it landed with a [...]]]></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>Sausage Makers</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/10/01/sausage-makers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this point more people (at least in the U.S.) probably know Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck more for his remark that &#8220;laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made,&#8221; than for his central role in unifying Germany back in the mid-1800s.
In addition to having an Oscar Wildean point and [...]]]></description>
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