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		<title>Going For The Throat: Health Care Reform; A Patient-Centric, Non-Political Wish List</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Written by Robyn Davis Hahn, Editor-In-Chief, Health Care, Dear Thyroid. Column &#8220;Going For The Throat) This past week was a hot one, both here on Dear Thyroid and in the U.S. Congress.   As I write this, the big press is on to have this HCR bill passed.   In the beginning, I thought anything, [...]<p>a</p>
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		<title>Going For The Throat: Awareness, Or How My View Of The World Reads Like A NATO Press Conference</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Written by Robyn Davis Hahn, EIC/Health Care &#8216;Going For The Throat&#8217;, Dear Thyroid) NATO headquarters, Brussels, 2002:,   “&#8230;there are known &#8220;knowns.&#8221; There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don&#8217;t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There [...]<p>a</p>
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		<title>Going For The Throat: Confessions of a Health Insurance Neophyte</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had health insurance of one kind or another my whole life.   I&#8217;m fortunate for that, and I know it.   But it wasn&#8217;t until my diagnosis with Hashimoto&#8217;s disease last June that I actually paid attention to my health plan.   The good news is that not only am I paying attention now, [...]<p>a</p>
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		<title>Are We Suffering From Medication Madness?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by, Doug Bremner, MD It seems like the healthcare system in America has gone completely bananas. It looks like the effort to &#8220;fix&#8221; the system through healthcare reform is making things worse. I&#8217;m going to be honest with you. I am a physician and I believe in a single payer health insurance plan for [...]<p>a</p>
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		<title>Going For The Throat: What Happened To The Health In Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by, Robyn Davis Hahn How did it get so complicated? Health care is a mess.   It&#8217;s a fucking mess from the ground up.   I&#8217;m not talking about HMO, PPO, HSA, employer portions, and benefits.   I&#8217;m not talking about insurance (although, just wait, I will&#8230;). Let&#8217;s talk about what the word “health&#8221; [...]<p>a</p>
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