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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>Are Medical Insurers Sacred Cows?</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/are-medical-insurers-sacred-cows-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doctorblue</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Patient Perspective]]></category>
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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>What Would You Do? What Others Said.</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/what-would-you-do-what-others-said-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The next in a series of blogs on my quest for competent health care.)
What would you do to get treatment for a rare disease treatable with penicillin that seemingly no U.S. doctor is familiar with? What would you do to get treatment now that your funds have been depleted on living expenses, futile doctor visits, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=268&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>
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		<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>
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		<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>What I Know About Health Care Politics</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/what-i-know-about-health-care-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/what-i-know-about-health-care-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pre-empting my continuing saga on efforts to secure legal counsel with this blog in honor of President Barack Obama&#8217;s conference on health care today. If NPR&#8217;s Morning Edition is accurate in its portrayal of events, this will be among the first meetings on health care that begins with a discussion on the ways health [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=164&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patients Googling Their Way To Health</title>
		<link>http://doctorblue.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/patients-googling-their-way-to-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to Google! I may never have deciphered what was wrong with me without the aid of Google search.
In spite of having read the Merck Manual from front to back twice and amassing a small medical library of my own, I have to credit my key breakthroughs in diagnosis to going online and googling specific [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=doctorblue.wordpress.com&blog=5488405&post=152&subd=doctorblue&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Story #18: Diagnostic Journey Leads To The Cause of Motility Dysfunction</title>
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