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		<title>There&#8217;s logic. And then there&#8217;s insurance company logic.</title>
		<link>http://usspi.org/blog/2010/02/17/theres-logic-and-then-theres-insurance-company-logic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gewirtz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I jumped through the looking glass the other day. I spoke to our insurance company. Although the woman I spoke to was very nice, I felt at times like I was talking more to the Mad Hatter than a respected insurance provider.
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		<title>The health care hostage crisis: the push for health care reform</title>
		<link>http://usspi.org/blog/2009/09/30/the-health-care-hostage-crisis-the-push-for-health-care-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gewirtz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The health care and insurance industries in America need a reboot. As we&#8217;ve seen over and over, Americans are getting screwed instead of getting healed. But if all we&#8217;re doing is adding one more big insurance operation to the mix, we&#8217;re missing something really fundamental. The whole concept of insurance isn&#8217;t working here.
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		<title>The health care hostage crisis: the failure of the insurance system</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gewirtz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clearly, the insurance system is a failure for vast numbers of Americans. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s particularly disturbing that the Senate&#8217;s new health care bill appears to be putting even more faith in the insurance companies.
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		<title>The health care hostage crisis: insurance is no assurance</title>
		<link>http://usspi.org/blog/2009/09/15/the-health-care-hostage-crisis-insurance-is-no-assurance/</link>
		<comments>http://usspi.org/blog/2009/09/15/the-health-care-hostage-crisis-insurance-is-no-assurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gewirtz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a concept in the insurance biz called rescission. It&#8217;s the insurance world&#8217;s equivalent of a marriage annulment, allowing an insurance company to back out of an already-paid insurance policy and deny the policy holder insurance coverage. If you have a serious medical problem, you stand a better than even chance of losing your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The health care hostage crisis: bankrupting the insured</title>
		<link>http://usspi.org/blog/2009/09/11/the-health-care-hostage-crisis-bankrupting-the-insured/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gewirtz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insurance coverage is another myth. We&#8217;ve all been led to believe that as long as we have insurance, we&#8217;ll be taken care of. As insurance rates go up and up and up, we&#8217;ve been promised that even though it costs a lot more, it&#8217;s worth it because our future is being assured.
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		<title>The health care hostage crisis: comparing America&#8217;s health care to other countries</title>
		<link>http://usspi.org/blog/2009/09/02/the-health-care-hostage-crisis-comparing-americas-health-care-to-other-countries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gewirtz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[How To Save Jobs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No profession knows more about the quality of patient care than nurses. In a July 2009 survey of more than 15,000 nurses nationwide, 70 percent said the staffing for their unit or shift was insufficient. Worse, 49.5 percent said they &#8220;would not feel confident having someone close to them receive care in the facility in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The health care hostage crisis: are we getting better care?</title>
		<link>http://usspi.org/blog/2009/08/26/the-health-care-hostage-crisis-are-we-getting-better-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gewirtz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since America spends far more on health care than any other country, it stands to reason we should be healthier here than people are anywhere else in the world. But are we? Is our health care system working so well, it&#8217;s worth the vastly greater cost?
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		<title>Hey, GOP! Please stop insulting America&#8217;s civil servants</title>
		<link>http://usspi.org/blog/2009/08/20/please-stop-insulting-americas-civil-servants/</link>
		<comments>http://usspi.org/blog/2009/08/20/please-stop-insulting-americas-civil-servants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gewirtz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent weeks, members of the GOP seem to have constantly insulted our civil servants. They&#8217;ve complained government-run health care might be like the post office, full of inefficiency. No one ever accused America&#8217;s post offices of perfection, but the Fedex guy recently delivered my wife&#8217;s birthday present to a house down the street. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The health care hostage crisis: how much does this all cost?</title>
		<link>http://usspi.org/blog/2009/08/19/the-health-care-hostage-crisis-how-much-does-this-all-cost/</link>
		<comments>http://usspi.org/blog/2009/08/19/the-health-care-hostage-crisis-how-much-does-this-all-cost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gewirtz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It costs the typical American employer eight times more each day to pay for an individual employee&#8217;s health insurance (and that&#8217;s before wages) than it costs to employ a &#8220;middle class&#8221; Chinese worker, wages and everything.
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		<title>The health care hostage crisis: the myth of employer-provided health care</title>
		<link>http://usspi.org/blog/2009/08/12/the-health-care-hostage-crisis-the-myth-of-employer-provided-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gewirtz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So 75 percent of all U.S. companies aren&#8217;t even in play for health insurance and of the remaining 25 percent, half of those are very small employer companies and only half of those offer health insurance. All told, only about 12 percent of U.S. companies actually offer health insurance to employees.
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