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    • 79 Ratings
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    I'm cannon fodder in the health care war

    AUGUST 17, 2009 5:11AM

    By Kevin Lee


    Topics: health care, single payer, reform, insurance, emphysema, disease, alpha-1 antitrypsin, respiratory

    • Editor's Pick
    • 77 Ratings
    • 17522 Views
    • 133 Comments
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    Switzerland: Inside the World’s Finest Health Care System

    AUGUST 24, 2009 8:14AM

    By Steve Blevins


    Topics: obama, switzerland, health care

    • 71 Ratings
    • 2107 Views
    • 79 Comments
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    Please Cover Your Assets

    FEBRUARY 12, 2010 10:41AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: cover placement, politics, meta, open salon, cover, editor's pick, editors pick, health care, health insurance, funding, ebay, bake sale, part of the problem, part of the solution, take a stand, taking a stand, make a difference, making a difference, wasted, squandered, articles, invisible, invisibility, visible, visibility, responsibility, leave of absence, king kaufman, cary tennis, policy, editorial policy, cover policy

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    • 63 Ratings
    • 6955 Views
    • 86 Comments
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    Boca Raton Hospital & Grille, Want Fries With That IV?

    AUGUST 28, 2009 5:31PM

    By Sally Swift


    Topics: open call, aging parents, heart attacks, wth?, bad hospitals, wtf?, bad medicine, medicine, doctors, nurses, crisis in health care, lack of health care, health care

    • Editor's Pick
    • 60 Ratings
    • 48865 Views
    • 54 Comments
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    I need to dumb myself down to save my sanity

    AUGUST 12, 2009 12:27PM

    By SpittingKitty


    Topics: stupidity, health care

    • Editor's Pick
    • 52 Ratings
    • 9045 Views
    • 86 Comments
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    I'm filing a grievance with Blue Shield -- and you can, too!

    MARCH 19, 2010 12:36PM

    By Cary Tennis


    Topics: cancer, chordoma, health, cary tennis, surgery, recovery, blue shield, insurance company, health care

    • Editor's Pick
    • 50 Ratings
    • 2293 Views
    • 50 Comments
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    The Man Gets a Little Health Care (Warning: Graphic Photos)

    SEPTEMBER 9, 2009 9:22AM

    By Jodi Kasten


    Topics: there's a telegraph line you've got yours and i've got mine it's called the nervous system, socialist commie pinkos, health care

    • Editor's Pick
    • 50 Ratings
    • 2725 Views
    • 51 Comments
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    Are We As Crazy as They Think? MS Town Hall Meeting

    AUGUST 19, 2009 12:37AM

    By DeliaBlack


    Topics: moderate, lord help us, shouting, redneck, crazy people, gene taylor, health care, town hall, mississippi

    • 49 Ratings
    • 2272 Views
    • 59 Comments
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    5 Reasons I'm Cranky, 5 Reasons I'm Not ***UPDATE

    JANUARY 21, 2010 6:21PM

    By Sally Swift


    Topics: not even leno, no avatar, no megaen fox, accidents, cars, knee surgery, cancer, melanoma, chemo, democrats, health care, haiti, obama, clinton, bush, beauty and the beast, vhl, os cookies!, 28 anniversaries!, true story, my head hurts just from these tags but hey freaky there's cake!

    • Editor's Pick
    • 49 Ratings
    • 9652 Views
    • 66 Comments
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    The Budget: Shock and Awe

    FEBRUARY 26, 2009 6:46PM

    By Saturn Smith


    Topics: budget, obama, politics, broder, washington post, media, health care reform, health care

    • 46 Ratings
    • 1935 Views
    • 84 Comments
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    Medical Insurance Has Gone Beyond the Pale

    MARCH 14, 2010 1:36PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: uninsured, upsetting, horrifying, tragedy, shame, shocking, travesty, uninsurable, pre-existing cancer, pre-existing condition, previously insured, was paid up, had been insured, lacking insurance, not insured, no longer insured, recently, suddenly, now, death spiral, medical care, health care, health insurance, medical insurance, insurance, medical, health, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 45 Ratings
    • 3158 Views
    • 57 Comments
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    The Big C

    SEPTEMBER 17, 2010 7:50AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: politics, climate change, cancer, citizen participation, convergence, carrying capacity, calamity, catastrophe, personal, personalize, supply chain, leverage, over-leveraged, stock market, crash, medication, drugs, supplies, hurricane, drought, war, disruption, society, capitalism, planning, population, overpopulation, zpg, health insurance, health care, health, bad for your health

    • Editor's Pick
    • 44 Ratings
    • 8778 Views
    • 67 Comments
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    The Word That Lurks Beneath...

    SEPTEMBER 14, 2009 11:10PM

    By Mortimer Hayden Smyth


    Topics: mortimer hayden smyth, racism, gop, republican, conservative, obama, muslim, radical, socialist, hitler, nazi, health care, town hall, joe wilson, hussein, illegitimate, antichrist, racist, words, i want my america back, country, indoctrination, code words, dog whistle

    • Editor's Pick
    • 43 Ratings
    • 11781 Views
    • 38 Comments
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    Muslim Men and Little White Dogs

    AUGUST 12, 2010 4:39PM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: ramadan, islam and dogs, muslims and dogs, qu'ran, holy koran, fatwa dogs, islam dogs unclean, prophet mohammed, mayo clinic, therapy dogs, rochester minnesota, havanese, religious tolerance, health care, belief/religion, travel, eat pray love

    • Editor's Pick
    • 42 Ratings
    • 1839 Views
    • 40 Comments
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    The Care Conference in The Leisure Lounge

    AUGUST 5, 2010 9:57AM

    By Ann Nichols


    Topics: aging parents, health care, what happened yesterday

    • 41 Ratings
    • 1943 Views
    • 54 Comments
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    Freakonomics? How About the Words of Bobby Nomicks?

    OCTOBER 25, 2011 9:48AM

    By Linda Seccaspina


    Topics: economy, video, mike reno, almost paradise, heart, footloose, clarion alley, occupy movement, religion, occupy, health care, puppy love, lincoln, obama, politics, ecomonics, poverty, freakonomics, occupy

    • 41 Ratings
    • 1033 Views
    • 39 Comments
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    Mom holds

    APRIL 24, 2010 9:27PM

    By Greg Correll


    Topics: open call, i love my mom, mothers, dying, health care, social security, saying goodbye, mother, letting go, goddamn mortality

    • Editor's Pick
    • 41 Ratings
    • 1680 Views
    • 57 Comments
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    "Patients First" Rally in Jax: Death Panel a No-Show

    AUGUST 27, 2009 2:06PM

    By Jodi Kasten


    Topics: health care, debate, public option, rallies, conservative think tanks, jacksonville

    • Editor's Pick
    • 40 Ratings
    • 1878 Views
    • 66 Comments
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    A Line in the Shifting Sands of Health Insurance

    DECEMBER 16, 2009 5:11AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: filibuster, universal health care, private, public, public option, price pressure, price control, competition, howard dean, dean, joseph lieberman, joe lieberman, lieberman, insurance companies, health insurance, health care, republicans, democrats, we need this to pass, rcredibility, failure is not an option, failure, lame duck, presidency, president, politics

    • 40 Ratings
    • 1635 Views
    • 49 Comments
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    Carted off by Police, and In Trouble Again

    AUGUST 15, 2009 2:25PM

    By C Berg


    Topics: health care, town hall fighting, loebsack, politics as usual

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