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    • 46 Ratings
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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

    • 39 Ratings
    • 1474 Views
    • 62 Comments
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    Eskimos And Escalades... A Pre-Existing Condition.

    JULY 30, 2009 4:05PM

    By Chuck A. Stetson


    Topics: family, health care, medical insurance, health, essay, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 35 Ratings
    • 2363 Views
    • 47 Comments
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    I’m Never the Sick One

    AUGUST 20, 2010 5:27PM

    By CoyoteOldStyle


    Topics: hospital, surgery, cholecystectomy, gall bladder, medical insurance, medicine, coyoteoldstyle, emergency medicine, george clooney wasn't there, health, open call

    • 28 Ratings
    • 1476 Views
    • 46 Comments
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    Challenging the Abortion Exclusion

    NOVEMBER 8, 2009 2:46PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: politics, health, health care, health insurance, medical, medical care, medical insurance, abortion, public option, exclusion, excluded, first amendment, court challenge, challenge, bill of rights, constitution

    • 14 Ratings
    • 1785 Views
    • 30 Comments
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    Health Insurance: A Modest Proposal

    SEPTEMBER 17, 2009 9:06AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: motivation, libertarian, constitutional amendment, term limits, private coverage, additional coverage, coverage, responsibility, catastrophe, incentive, privatized, privatize, private, government, regulation, society, universal care, universal, lobbying, for-profit, profit, risk pooling, risk pools, pooling, pool, insurance, business, capitalism, capitalist, socialism, socialist, single payer, same boat, afflict the comfortable, every man for himself, one for all, all for one, equality, health insurance, medical insurance, health care, medical care, care, medical, medicine, politics

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    • 14 Ratings
    • 4684 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    Even With Obamacare, It's As If I Don't Exist

    APRIL 26, 2011 11:59PM

    By bonnie bernstein


    Topics: true story, health, bonnie bernstein, politics, supreme court, mark levin, medical insurance, medicaid, president obama, price of gas, war, economy, obamacare, mammography, my obamacare story, afghanistan

    • 7 Ratings
    • 1563 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    Even Republicans say it: the “single-payer” system works!

    MAY 10, 2012 3:08PM

    By Kanuk


    Topics: texas a&m university; single-payer, medical insurance, single insurance plan, tamu. a&m, aggie, john sharp, chancellor, health care. healthcare

    • 4 Ratings
    • 858 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    Health Insurance Investments In Big Tobacco Revealed

    JUNE 11, 2009 5:13PM

    By Mini Macro


    Topics: us health care, tobacco, smoking, medicine, medical insurance

    • 0 Ratings
    • 543 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Socialized Medicine: Would it really work for the U.S.?

    DECEMBER 10, 2008 1:09AM

    By CSteven Tucker


    Topics: schip, medical insurance, health insurance, single payer system, universal health coverage, socialized medicine

    • 3 Ratings
    • 1867 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    Insurance: "Life is not fair & it will drive up my rates"

    AUGUST 22, 2009 8:30PM

    By Kanuk


    Topics: idiots, kbtx, disability, health care, pre-existing conditions, medical insurance

    • 5 Ratings
    • 1067 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Obama's Health Care Reform Will Decimate our Nation

    SEPTEMBER 2, 2009 3:03PM

    By Dorian de Wind


    Topics: death panels, chemotherapy, end-of-life counseling, stephen hawking, republicans, breast cancer, medical insurance, medical care, abortions, british health care, veterans, euthanasia, fearmongering, scare tactics, obama, gop, health care reform, science, politics, news, health, family, belief/religion

    • 6 Ratings
    • 2513 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Sticking it to the Man at the private medical insurance co.

    APRIL 3, 2009 9:59AM

    By Kanuk


    Topics: health care, medical insurance

    • 0 Ratings
    • 281 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    The Loss of the Yearly Pap Smear

    NOVEMBER 25, 2009 8:31AM

    By Women's Voices for Change


    Topics: women's health, healthcare reform, health insurance reform, medical insurance, abnormal pap smear, cervical cancer, gardasil, hpv vaccine, sexual health, mammogram, gynecology, pap smear, dr. elizabeth poynor

    • 3 Ratings
    • 2095 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    The Meaning of Option... Public Optional Healthcare

    AUGUST 21, 2009 11:21AM

    By Sarah_in_USA


    Topics: republican morons, medical insurance, healthcare, obama

    • 2 Ratings
    • 617 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    My letter to Senator John McCain

    JUNE 6, 2009 4:08AM

    By Nerdyjen


    Topics: news, health, family, cobra, job loss, medical insurance, brain aneurysm, kennedy, healthcare, health care, mccain

    • 1 Ratings
    • 1663 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Engaging with Hospital Bureaucracy and Not Backing Down

    MARCH 20, 2010 2:52AM

    By Patrick Frank


    Topics: patient self-advocacy, medical insurance, obama, health care reform, hospital bureaucracy, hospital care

    • 0 Ratings
    • 302 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Cooking And The Art Of Marriage Maintenance - On A Budget!

    JANUARY 17, 2010 7:21PM

    By Britusa


    Topics: food/drink, family, travel, gourmet, stress, unemployment, budget, medical insurance, therapy, food, marriage

    • 0 Ratings
    • 487 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Pills Killing Our People

    AUGUST 12, 2009 7:25PM

    By Carrie Anne


    Topics: depression, xanax, lortab, oxicodone, medical insurance, holistic health

    • 1 Ratings
    • 404 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Guaranteed Issue Health Insurance for the Uninsurable

    DECEMBER 10, 2008 1:03AM

    By CSteven Tucker


    Topics: health insurance, declined, uninsurable, medical insurance

    • 1 Ratings
    • 105 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    I Call That a Bargain

    FEBRUARY 8, 2013 10:15AM

    By Matthew Sedmock


    Topics: open call, medical insurance, cutbacks, downsizing

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