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	<description>Health Care For All</description>
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		<title>Why the &#8220;free market&#8221; can&#8217;t handle health care</title>
		<link>http://lifeomike.org/2012/02/07/why-the-free-market-cant-handle-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leslie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proponents of complete deregulation would have us believe that regulations are standing in the way of progress, that the so-called free market will regulate itself and result in an industry that will do the right thing for consumers. Here&#8217;s the truth: It can&#8217;t work that way. And here&#8217;s why: Businesse are responsible, first and foremost, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hangin&#8217; with Thom</title>
		<link>http://lifeomike.org/2012/02/05/hangin-with-thom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leslie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m out in Goldsboro, NC, tonight, staying with my high school friend, Thom Welch. Thom retired from the Air Force today, and he invited me and our friends Pat and Barry Ryan, to the retirement ceremony. The four of us graduated from North Attleboro High School in 1970. Barry got a PhD in public health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The policy details matter</title>
		<link>http://lifeomike.org/2012/02/02/the-policy-details-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life o' Mike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health benefits exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[regulation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I spent the morning in a meeting of the panel that is making decisions on what North Carolina&#8217;s insurance exchange will look like. I know most people would have found the meeting unbearably dull, but the points being discussed could make the difference between an exchange that works best for consumers or one that works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go bankrupt or die &#8212; or both</title>
		<link>http://lifeomike.org/2012/01/30/go-bankrupt-or-die-or-both/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeomike.org/2012/01/30/go-bankrupt-or-die-or-both/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life o' Mike]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of stories caught my eye this week: A young Canadian skier who was gravely injured in an accident here in the US and ultimately died. The Utah hospital that tried to save her then billed her family some $550,000 (That&#8217;s one estimate of the amount; others are as low as about $280,000). An 18-year-old young woman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New poll shows most want health reform</title>
		<link>http://lifeomike.org/2012/01/27/new-poll-shows-most-want-health-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeomike.org/2012/01/27/new-poll-shows-most-want-health-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life o' Mike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[approval]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that 44 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of the Affordable Care Act; 37 percent have a favorable view. But the people who want to see the law expanded or kept in its current form (50 percent) is still larger than the percentage of people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just two brief mentions</title>
		<link>http://lifeomike.org/2012/01/25/just-two-brief-mentions/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeomike.org/2012/01/25/just-two-brief-mentions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life o' Mike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[State of the Union]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I watched the State of the Union address last night and two things jumped out at me: John Boehner looked constipated, and health care was barely mentioned. I counted two brief mentions, one when the president said he would not go back to the days of unchecked power for insurance companies to raise rates, cancel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frustrations over Medicaid in North Carolina</title>
		<link>http://lifeomike.org/2012/01/23/frustrations-over-medicaid-in-north-carolina/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeomike.org/2012/01/23/frustrations-over-medicaid-in-north-carolina/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life o' Mike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Human Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lanier Cansler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[North Carolina&#8217;s  Secretary of Health and Human Services, Lanier Cansler, resigned from his post recently, effective Jan. 31. When Gov. Bev Perdue was elected, I ran into Lanier at a party and asked if he was going to be the next HHS secretary. I got an odd stare in responsse, and then he smiled and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The local numbers</title>
		<link>http://lifeomike.org/2012/01/19/the-local-numbers/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeomike.org/2012/01/19/the-local-numbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leslie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was filling out a grant letter of intent this morning with one of my board members. She was looking up the numbers and I was interpreting them, and they&#8217;re pretty dismal. For one thing the two top causes of death here are suicide and infection &#8212; both largely preventable. An estiumated 40,000 people in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The folly of &#8220;you can&#8217;t be poor if &#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://lifeomike.org/2012/01/04/the-folly-of-you-cant-be-poor-if/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeomike.org/2012/01/04/the-folly-of-you-cant-be-poor-if/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life o' Mike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the rises in the poverty level and the cuts to programs that help people in poverty, some on the Right would have us believe that you can&#8217;t be poor if you have a refrigerator and a TV, or even if you have indoor plumbing. There are plenty of people whose refrigerator came with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This year, I resolve &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lifeomike.org/2012/01/03/this-year-i-resolve/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeomike.org/2012/01/03/this-year-i-resolve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life o' Mike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[access to quality care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public option]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year, everyone. This promises to be an historic year, either in that We the People take back our Democracy or that it succumbs to corporate interests. Across the country, corporate interests are trying to subvert the election process with laws that place obstacles in the paths of voters &#8212; especially those voters who [...]]]></description>
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