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    "BIRTHIN' BABIES"! Pre-Existing Condition? (Open Call)

    APRIL 2, 2012 12:22PM

    By Marilyn Sands


    Topics: family, open+call, politics, news, health, emergency room, hospital, pre-existing condition, insurance, back alley deliveries, birth, babies, healthcare reform, supreme court, talk amongst yourselves, don't call it obamacare call it americare, affordable care act, pregnancy, open call, devil's advocate

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    Layaway the Credit - in Response to Louis Hyman

    OCTOBER 13, 2011 8:13PM

    By Kathy Elrick


    Topics: layaway, kmart, walmart, corporate stores, banks, chain stores, store credit, health costs, health, health care, pre-existing condition, reagan era, credit cards, credit, credit problems, credit principle, credit interest, compound interest, monthly payments, monthly minimums, minimum credit payments, christmas gifts, christmas, school, school items, going back to school, chicago, chicago in the 80s, chicago area, chicagoland, bankruptcy, foreclosure, family home, family house, medical expenses, credit problems, too many credit cards, long-term debt, short-term debt, purchase, saving money to purchase

    • 46 Ratings
    • 1939 Views
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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

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    • 1502 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    If the Healthcare Industry Ran IT

    MARCH 9, 2010 7:09PM

    By Phil Johnson


    Topics: cartoon saturday, doctor, health care, it underworld, itworld, laptop, nerd, nurse, pre-existing condition

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    • 11 Ratings
    • 904 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Cartoons, acid mix #7 —Talking Head

    OCTOBER 23, 2009 10:49AM

    By Richard Fox


    Topics: humor, satire, cartoon, health care, pre-existing condition, open call

    • 15 Ratings
    • 2758 Views
    • 37 Comments
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    Medical Care and the Free-Market Catch-22

    AUGUST 22, 2009 4:43PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: incentivize, incentive, privatized, privatize, private, government intervention, government regulation, government, intervention, regulation, free market, market, unseen hand, eligibility, existing condition, pre-existing condition, exclusion, exclude, universal coverage, coverage, universal care, care, single payer, public option, socialism, socialist, capitalism, capitalist, for-profit, profit, risk pooling, risk pools, pooling, pool, insurance, business, health care, health, medical care, medicine, irresolvable, conflicting, unhelpful, hypocrite, hypocrisy, overconstrained, paradoxical, paradox, conundrum, impossible bind, double bind, catch-22, politics

    • 5 Ratings
    • 852 Views
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    Is Doing Good the Same as Not Doing Harm?

    NOVEMBER 12, 2008 10:22AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: politics, spying, medical, ethics, search, search engine, google, askeraser, second-hand use, second-hand information, information, freedom, privacy, information misuse, flu, epidemic, pandemic, bird flu, heuristic, prediction, insurance, risk, risk pools, pre-existing condition, surveillance

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