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	<title>Life-O-Mike &#187; Leslie Boyd</title>
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	<description>Health Care For All</description>
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		<title>Being sick in America</title>
		<link>http://lifeomike.org/2012/05/21/being-sick-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Boyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life o' Mike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quality of care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People in this country who are sick see the health care system in a worse light than those who are well, according to a new poll by NPR and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. They are more likely to believe cost is an urgent problem, that health care personnel don&#8217;t communicate sufficiently and that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell me again how the free market can handle health care?</title>
		<link>http://lifeomike.org/2012/05/17/tell-me-again-how-the-free-market-can-handle-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Boyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life o' Mike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cigna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[horror story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[profits]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Pragmatic Progressive. I only know this woman&#8217;s first name, Midge. I assume she lives in New Jersey because the closest hospital to her was in Hoboken. But her story is all too common. &#8220;Let&#8217;s talk about insurance companies. My husband Dan became very ill last Friday. He rushed in from work unexpected. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So, when do we reach the tipping point?</title>
		<link>http://lifeomike.org/2012/05/16/so-when-do-we-reach-the-tipping-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Boyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life o' Mike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care expenses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PPO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, Americans&#8217; health care costs have gone up. A report released Tuesday by the consultant company, Millman, found that health care costs for a family of four covered by employer-sponsored health insurance will top $20,000 for the first time ever this year &#8212; $20,728 to be precise &#8212; according to a new study released Tuesday. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Canadians hate their health care?</title>
		<link>http://lifeomike.org/2012/05/14/do-canadians-hate-their-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeomike.org/2012/05/14/do-canadians-hate-their-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Boyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life o' Mike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[universal care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I went to a  party the other night and got to meet  Thom, a friend of my friends Christopher and Bruce. Thom flew in from Toronto for a few days to visit, and we got to talking, first about gay marriage (Thom is legally married to his partner and Canada has not fallen apart as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The damage is done</title>
		<link>http://lifeomike.org/2012/05/10/the-damage-is-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 15:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Boyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life o' Mike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amendment One]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic partner benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeomike.org/?p=2147</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am really happy that President Obama came down firmly on the side of human rights yesterday, but it was the day after voters in North Carolina decided to institutionalize its ban on gay marriage by enshrining it in the state Constitution. Unfortunately, the amendment went further than banning gay marriage. It defined marriage as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A MUST-read book: &#8216;Hot Cripple&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://lifeomike.org/2012/05/07/a-must-read-book-hot-cripple/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeomike.org/2012/05/07/a-must-read-book-hot-cripple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 17:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Boyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life o' Mike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food stamps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hot Cripple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uninsured]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hogan Gorman was a model and actress in New York, working as a cocktail waitress, and like too many Americans, uninsured, when the unthinkable happened: she was hit by a car. She was told again and again that the accident should have killed her and then sent home from the emergency room with a neck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surprise!</title>
		<link>http://lifeomike.org/2012/05/03/surprise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 20:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Boyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life o' Mike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeomike.org/?p=2139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My husband is on vacation this week and I&#8217;m not. So, he offered to take me out for a beer after work and then to dinner last night. I got to the Altamont Brewing Co. a few minutes after he did, and when I said I wanted to think about what to order, he said, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another grieving mother</title>
		<link>http://lifeomike.org/2012/05/02/another-grieving-mother/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeomike.org/2012/05/02/another-grieving-mother/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 15:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Boyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life o' Mike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[injustice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shooting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeomike.org/?p=2128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I met Julia Robinson at an event in Hendersonville, NC, yesterday. The Truth and Hope Poverty Tour of North Carolina, sponsored by the NC NAACP, the NC Justice Center, the Institute for Civic Engagement and Social Change at NC Central University, and the AARP, stopped in Hendersonville, and Robinson was there to tell her story. Derrick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truly horrifying ideas</title>
		<link>http://lifeomike.org/2012/04/25/truly-horrifying-ideas/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeomike.org/2012/04/25/truly-horrifying-ideas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Boyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legislation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[embryo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miscarriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[murder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prosecution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeomike.org/?p=2124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The state legislature in Tennessee has passed a bill that makes me want to avoid even driving through the state. When I first read it, I thought it was a bad joke. The bill would make any miscarriage a potential crime. It hasn&#8217;t been signed by the governor yet, and there&#8217;s no word as to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leave Medicare as it is</title>
		<link>http://lifeomike.org/2012/04/10/leave-medicare-as-it-is/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeomike.org/2012/04/10/leave-medicare-as-it-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Boyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life o' Mike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[block grants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I ran into my friend Dr. Olson Huff this morning. Once again, this supposedly-retired physician-activist is headed to Washington to try to avert changes in the way Medicare is funded. There&#8217;s been talk about changing the single-payer program from a so-called entitlement program to a block grant to the states, as Medicaid is done now. [...]]]></description>
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