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		<title>No Insurance Surgery new face lift</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a cosmetic change to our web site but there is also a lot going on  behind the scene at No Insurance Surgery. The web site is being rewritten and the online medical consultation is being re-engineered. Our blog is the first part of our web site to sport the new look. Let us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noinsurancesurgery.com/blog/?p=42</link>
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		<title>Health Care Overhaul Spawns Mass Confusion for Public</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We do not yet know all of the unintended consequences of recent health care legistlation but this one was fairly perdictable.
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/04/06/91696/health-care-overhaul-spawns-mass.html#ixzz0kRSfz3fL
For many of the conditions which we treat at No Insurance Surgery patients cannot and should not wait for four years for surgery. We are hopeful that things will get better for everybody [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noinsurancesurgery.com/blog/?p=40</link>
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		<title>Harsh reality of rationing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No one wants to admit that &#8220;bending the cost curve&#8221; will lead inevitably to rationing of health care. The proposed cost savings are speculative and without cost savings then utilization has to be reduced. Do we really want government making these decisions for every one?
There is very little to be gained by paying doctors and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noinsurancesurgery.com/blog/?p=33</link>
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		<title>Fix the safety net &#8211; fix Medicaid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No one disputes that everyone needs access to health care. In fact we currently have a safety net but it does not work very well. Medicaid covers the poor who need medical care. But anyone with a job or savings or a home cannot receive any benefits until they spend every thing that they have. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noinsurancesurgery.com/blog/?p=30</link>
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		<title>Some good ideas for health care reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an excellent piece that I read on Fox News this morning. These are common sense and incremental improvements to our current system which can help a lot of people and do not risk bring down the economy of our country:Fixing America: Health Reform
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		<link>http://www.noinsurancesurgery.com/blog/?p=27</link>
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		<title>Health care reform back on track</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It may appear to some that health care reform has been knocked off track. We feel that it has been saved and knocked back on track. The bills that were looming in Congress were partisan, idiological, secretive, full of special interest deals and viewed negatively by a majority of Americans. I blogged earlier about health [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noinsurancesurgery.com/blog/?p=24</link>
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		<title>Charity Donations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the years we have been approached by increasing numbers of people and organization who want to donate to No Insurance Surgery, Inc. Although we are very grateful for the offers we have had to turn them down because we have no mechanism to accept, manage and distribute donations. Because of the level of interest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noinsurancesurgery.com/blog/?p=18</link>
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		<title>Medicare Fraud and Abuse?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A proposal currently on the table is to save 450 billion over the ten years by eliminating &#8220;medicare fraud and abuse&#8221;. The politicians make it sound like there are legions of criminals out there stealing from the medicare system. The truth is that medicare pays less than what it costs to take care of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noinsurancesurgery.com/blog/?p=14</link>
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		<title>Health Care Reform Fatigue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know about anyone else but I am getting really tired of hearing about health care reform. The whole process has been quite ugly and a bit shameful to say the least. Broken promises, secrecy, shady deal making, misinformation to outright lies and politicians telling the American people that the people do not know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noinsurancesurgery.com/blog/?p=10</link>
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		<title>New blog for No Insurance Surgery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I succeeded in installing WordPress on a Windows Server in less than 30 minutes this evening. I must say that I am very impressed with how smooth the install was and how well the blog functions. It will take some time to move the old blog over to the new blog. In the mean time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noinsurancesurgery.com/blog/?p=4</link>
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