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		<title>State Insurance Regulation Conundrums</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/state-insurance-regulation-conundrums/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I ended up calling the Virginia Bureau of Insurance regarding the difficulty I was having finding an insurance company that would sell Medicare Supplement Insurance or a Medigap policy for disabled persons under age 65 in Virginia.  (While finding a Medigap policy is fairly easy for seniors age 65 and over, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=350&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Virginia&#8217;s Election Results</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/reflections-on-virginias-election-results/</link>
		<comments>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/reflections-on-virginias-election-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doctorblue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democrats are licking their wounds after Republicans won the top three posts for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general by an overwhelming margin in this past Tuesday&#8217;s election in Virginia.  Bob McDonnell won the governorship with 59% of the vote to Creigh Deeds&#8217; 41%.  What happened?   Republicans showed up, and Democrats [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=340&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are Medical Insurers Sacred Cows?</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/are-medical-insurers-sacred-cows-2/</link>
		<comments>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/are-medical-insurers-sacred-cows-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health insurance companies are a powerful industry not easily provoked, pushed or intimidated into doing anything.  This arrogance persists even after they&#8217;ve been fined millions for having failed their members and providers time and again.
In a June 2009 report, Health Care for America Now outlined the habitual abuses perpetrated by health insurance companies.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=322&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Want To Be A Vigilante</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/i-want-to-be-a-vigilante/</link>
		<comments>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/i-want-to-be-a-vigilante/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 22:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doctorblue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to be a vigilante. More than anything. I tried to keep this blog from becoming an outlet for my rants and raves, but yesterday, after meeting yet again more victims disabled unnecessarily by U.S. Health Care, I&#8217;m outraged.
I&#8217;m outraged hearing that a person who isn&#8217;t outwardly bleeding is made to wait 17 hours [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=232&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Health Care Reform The Lesser of Two Poor Choices?</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/is-health-care-reform-the-lesser-of-two-poor-choices/</link>
		<comments>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/is-health-care-reform-the-lesser-of-two-poor-choices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 23:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t think anyone knows if government-run or private-run health care is the answer. Both seem to be the lesser of two poor choices for a variety of reasons. Central among the reasons is the lack of focus on patient outcomes (quality of care) and the need to replace the practice of specialists handing off [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=222&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Healthcare Reform</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/in-defense-of-healthcare-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/in-defense-of-healthcare-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 02:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama could gain more support for his proposed health care reforms if the government actually enforced existing laws.
Under our current system, I believe medical insurance companies have vicarious liability for the negligence of their network providers. Calling the insurance companies to the carpet for the negligence of its providers would expose reasons for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=217&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to a Patient Advocate</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/letter-to-a-patient-advocate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 01:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advocate,
Thank you so much for responding to my e-mail plea so quickly. I saw on the internet that you have another day job and couldn&#8217;t help wondering if you had given up patient advocacy because of constraints on your time or the inability of many to pay for advocacy services.
From your bio I saw that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=212&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Write This Story&#8217;s Ending</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/write-this-storys-ending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some readers want to know what happened as if this was an episode of the Discovery Channel&#8217;s &#8220;Mystery Diagnosis.&#8221; Was my self diagnosis accurate? Did I have the surgery and was it successful? Did I discover the cure for what is ailing me? But my story didn&#8217;t qualify for the TV show because there is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=203&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tell Me Your Story</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/tell-me-your-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since starting my blog about my futile quest for competent medical care in the U.S., dozens of readers have contacted me with similar stories of their own. The stories are heartfelt, sincere and alarming. It&#8217;s as if the chronically ill are living in a silent, forgotten underworld that no one else cares about or can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=159&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Story #17: The Religion of Diagnosis</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/the-story-17-the-religion-of-diagnosis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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