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		<title>By: huang</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/12/is-medicaid-something-i-dreamed/#comment-26666</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The magic wand increased prices and your magic wand is going to bring them down.

Hilarious.  You want to know why costs are going up?  Because 85 year olds want to live to 88.  That is a huge chunk of health care costs and increases.

How are YOU going to fix that?  There is only one way: make them pay for it.  You want to live those extra few years? Then pay hundreds of thousands of dollars if you have them.  If you don&#039;t have those dollars, then you really don&#039;t want to live those extra years.

Right now you are paying to keep old people alive longer.  Chew on that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The magic wand increased prices and your magic wand is going to bring them down.</p>
<p>Hilarious.  You want to know why costs are going up?  Because 85 year olds want to live to 88.  That is a huge chunk of health care costs and increases.</p>
<p>How are YOU going to fix that?  There is only one way: make them pay for it.  You want to live those extra few years? Then pay hundreds of thousands of dollars if you have them.  If you don&#8217;t have those dollars, then you really don&#8217;t want to live those extra years.</p>
<p>Right now you are paying to keep old people alive longer.  Chew on that.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/12/is-medicaid-something-i-dreamed/#comment-26667</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The magic wand increased prices and your magic wand is going to bring them down.

Hilarious.  You want to know why costs are going up?  Because 85 year olds want to live to 88.  That is a huge chunk of health care costs and increases.

How are YOU going to fix that?  There is only one way: make them pay for it.  You want to live those extra few years? Then pay hundreds of thousands of dollars if you have them.  If you don&#039;t have those dollars, then you really don&#039;t want to live those extra years.

Right now you are paying to keep old people alive longer.  Chew on that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The magic wand increased prices and your magic wand is going to bring them down.</p>
<p>Hilarious.  You want to know why costs are going up?  Because 85 year olds want to live to 88.  That is a huge chunk of health care costs and increases.</p>
<p>How are YOU going to fix that?  There is only one way: make them pay for it.  You want to live those extra few years? Then pay hundreds of thousands of dollars if you have them.  If you don&#8217;t have those dollars, then you really don&#8217;t want to live those extra years.</p>
<p>Right now you are paying to keep old people alive longer.  Chew on that.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/12/is-medicaid-something-i-dreamed/#comment-26668</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The magic wand increased prices and your magic wand is going to bring them down.

Hilarious.  You want to know why costs are going up?  Because 85 year olds want to live to 88.  That is a huge chunk of health care costs and increases.

How are YOU going to fix that?  There is only one way: make them pay for it.  You want to live those extra few years? Then pay hundreds of thousands of dollars if you have them.  If you don&#039;t have those dollars, then you really don&#039;t want to live those extra years.

Right now you are paying to keep old people alive longer.  Chew on that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The magic wand increased prices and your magic wand is going to bring them down.</p>
<p>Hilarious.  You want to know why costs are going up?  Because 85 year olds want to live to 88.  That is a huge chunk of health care costs and increases.</p>
<p>How are YOU going to fix that?  There is only one way: make them pay for it.  You want to live those extra few years? Then pay hundreds of thousands of dollars if you have them.  If you don&#8217;t have those dollars, then you really don&#8217;t want to live those extra years.</p>
<p>Right now you are paying to keep old people alive longer.  Chew on that.</p>
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		<title>By: Anne</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/12/is-medicaid-something-i-dreamed/#comment-26663</link>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Self- insured here - I&#039;ve been an active participant in the health insurance market for a number of years.  Seems to me like Will has never needed to purchase health care, though I&#039;m sure he&#039;s needed to purchase food.  To point to Medicaid&#039;s existence as a reason why no reform is necessary is wrong.

Last I checked, food prices did not increase astronomically last year - for no reason.  (Though they did increase because of the high cost of gas last year.)

The cost of my health insurance did increase significantly - for no reason.  My family (self-insured!) saw a 25% increase in our premium - with no change at all in health status.  In other words, we&#039;re just as healthy this year as we were last year.  But for whatever reason, our insurance company jacked up the prices astronomically - I suppose because we&#039;re one year closer to death.

And I know that as a self-insured family, we&#039;re one diagnosis away from being dumped all together by the insurance sector - a big reason why reform is needed.

Health care reform needs to address the issue of the cost of health care.  That&#039;s not the same as providing &quot;health care stamps&quot; so that poor and/or uninsured people can go to the doctor.

If we do not control the cost of health care, all of this discussion of health care reform will be for naught, because no one will be able to afford health care.  Except maybe the top one percent of the population of the United States....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Self- insured here &#8211; I&#8217;ve been an active participant in the health insurance market for a number of years.  Seems to me like Will has never needed to purchase health care, though I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s needed to purchase food.  To point to Medicaid&#8217;s existence as a reason why no reform is necessary is wrong.</p>
<p>Last I checked, food prices did not increase astronomically last year &#8211; for no reason.  (Though they did increase because of the high cost of gas last year.)</p>
<p>The cost of my health insurance did increase significantly &#8211; for no reason.  My family (self-insured!) saw a 25% increase in our premium &#8211; with no change at all in health status.  In other words, we&#8217;re just as healthy this year as we were last year.  But for whatever reason, our insurance company jacked up the prices astronomically &#8211; I suppose because we&#8217;re one year closer to death.</p>
<p>And I know that as a self-insured family, we&#8217;re one diagnosis away from being dumped all together by the insurance sector &#8211; a big reason why reform is needed.</p>
<p>Health care reform needs to address the issue of the cost of health care.  That&#8217;s not the same as providing &#8220;health care stamps&#8221; so that poor and/or uninsured people can go to the doctor.</p>
<p>If we do not control the cost of health care, all of this discussion of health care reform will be for naught, because no one will be able to afford health care.  Except maybe the top one percent of the population of the United States&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Anne</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/12/is-medicaid-something-i-dreamed/#comment-26664</link>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Self- insured here - I&#039;ve been an active participant in the health insurance market for a number of years.  Seems to me like Will has never needed to purchase health care, though I&#039;m sure he&#039;s needed to purchase food.  To point to Medicaid&#039;s existence as a reason why no reform is necessary is wrong.

Last I checked, food prices did not increase astronomically last year - for no reason.  (Though they did increase because of the high cost of gas last year.)

The cost of my health insurance did increase significantly - for no reason.  My family (self-insured!) saw a 25% increase in our premium - with no change at all in health status.  In other words, we&#039;re just as healthy this year as we were last year.  But for whatever reason, our insurance company jacked up the prices astronomically - I suppose because we&#039;re one year closer to death.

And I know that as a self-insured family, we&#039;re one diagnosis away from being dumped all together by the insurance sector - a big reason why reform is needed.

Health care reform needs to address the issue of the cost of health care.  That&#039;s not the same as providing &quot;health care stamps&quot; so that poor and/or uninsured people can go to the doctor.

If we do not control the cost of health care, all of this discussion of health care reform will be for naught, because no one will be able to afford health care.  Except maybe the top one percent of the population of the United States....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Self- insured here &#8211; I&#8217;ve been an active participant in the health insurance market for a number of years.  Seems to me like Will has never needed to purchase health care, though I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s needed to purchase food.  To point to Medicaid&#8217;s existence as a reason why no reform is necessary is wrong.</p>
<p>Last I checked, food prices did not increase astronomically last year &#8211; for no reason.  (Though they did increase because of the high cost of gas last year.)</p>
<p>The cost of my health insurance did increase significantly &#8211; for no reason.  My family (self-insured!) saw a 25% increase in our premium &#8211; with no change at all in health status.  In other words, we&#8217;re just as healthy this year as we were last year.  But for whatever reason, our insurance company jacked up the prices astronomically &#8211; I suppose because we&#8217;re one year closer to death.</p>
<p>And I know that as a self-insured family, we&#8217;re one diagnosis away from being dumped all together by the insurance sector &#8211; a big reason why reform is needed.</p>
<p>Health care reform needs to address the issue of the cost of health care.  That&#8217;s not the same as providing &#8220;health care stamps&#8221; so that poor and/or uninsured people can go to the doctor.</p>
<p>If we do not control the cost of health care, all of this discussion of health care reform will be for naught, because no one will be able to afford health care.  Except maybe the top one percent of the population of the United States&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Anne</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/12/is-medicaid-something-i-dreamed/#comment-26665</link>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Self- insured here - I&#039;ve been an active participant in the health insurance market for a number of years.  Seems to me like Will has never needed to purchase health care, though I&#039;m sure he&#039;s needed to purchase food.  To point to Medicaid&#039;s existence as a reason why no reform is necessary is wrong.

Last I checked, food prices did not increase astronomically last year - for no reason.  (Though they did increase because of the high cost of gas last year.)

The cost of my health insurance did increase significantly - for no reason.  My family (self-insured!) saw a 25% increase in our premium - with no change at all in health status.  In other words, we&#039;re just as healthy this year as we were last year.  But for whatever reason, our insurance company jacked up the prices astronomically - I suppose because we&#039;re one year closer to death.

And I know that as a self-insured family, we&#039;re one diagnosis away from being dumped all together by the insurance sector - a big reason why reform is needed.

Health care reform needs to address the issue of the cost of health care.  That&#039;s not the same as providing &quot;health care stamps&quot; so that poor and/or uninsured people can go to the doctor.

If we do not control the cost of health care, all of this discussion of health care reform will be for naught, because no one will be able to afford health care.  Except maybe the top one percent of the population of the United States....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Self- insured here &#8211; I&#8217;ve been an active participant in the health insurance market for a number of years.  Seems to me like Will has never needed to purchase health care, though I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s needed to purchase food.  To point to Medicaid&#8217;s existence as a reason why no reform is necessary is wrong.</p>
<p>Last I checked, food prices did not increase astronomically last year &#8211; for no reason.  (Though they did increase because of the high cost of gas last year.)</p>
<p>The cost of my health insurance did increase significantly &#8211; for no reason.  My family (self-insured!) saw a 25% increase in our premium &#8211; with no change at all in health status.  In other words, we&#8217;re just as healthy this year as we were last year.  But for whatever reason, our insurance company jacked up the prices astronomically &#8211; I suppose because we&#8217;re one year closer to death.</p>
<p>And I know that as a self-insured family, we&#8217;re one diagnosis away from being dumped all together by the insurance sector &#8211; a big reason why reform is needed.</p>
<p>Health care reform needs to address the issue of the cost of health care.  That&#8217;s not the same as providing &#8220;health care stamps&#8221; so that poor and/or uninsured people can go to the doctor.</p>
<p>If we do not control the cost of health care, all of this discussion of health care reform will be for naught, because no one will be able to afford health care.  Except maybe the top one percent of the population of the United States&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: nmg</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/12/is-medicaid-something-i-dreamed/#comment-26658</link>
		<dc:creator>nmg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is such a thing as private charity.  If it pains us so much to see a few foolish unfortunates get unlucky, charities will cover that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is such a thing as private charity.  If it pains us so much to see a few foolish unfortunates get unlucky, charities will cover that.</p>
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		<title>By: Tiranga</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/12/is-medicaid-something-i-dreamed/#comment-26657</link>
		<dc:creator>Tiranga</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The rich entitled to no more medical care than the poor and from each according to his abilities and to each according to his needs is not just socialism but out and out communism.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The rich entitled to no more medical care than the poor and from each according to his abilities and to each according to his needs is not just socialism but out and out communism.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/12/is-medicaid-something-i-dreamed/#comment-26660</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s feeding the trolls to even engage in conversation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s feeding the trolls to even engage in conversation.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/12/is-medicaid-something-i-dreamed/#comment-26661</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s feeding the trolls to even engage in conversation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s feeding the trolls to even engage in conversation.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/12/is-medicaid-something-i-dreamed/#comment-26662</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s feeding the trolls to even engage in conversation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s feeding the trolls to even engage in conversation.</p>
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		<title>By: DavidS</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/12/is-medicaid-something-i-dreamed/#comment-26656</link>
		<dc:creator>DavidS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OK, so I buy inadequate health insurance, and I get cancer. I write a personal check to my oncologist, get a week of chemotherapy, the check bounces, and I declare bankruptcy. Who pays for the next several years of cancer treatments? Bankruptcy doesn&#039;t help here.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Moreover, I&#039;ve given facts that make me look as irresponsible as possible. In real life, I can&#039;t tell whether my health insurance is adequate, because the insurance company can retroactively cancel my policy years later if I made an error on the enrollment forms.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK, so I buy inadequate health insurance, and I get cancer. I write a personal check to my oncologist, get a week of chemotherapy, the check bounces, and I declare bankruptcy. Who pays for the next several years of cancer treatments? Bankruptcy doesn&#39;t help here.</p>
<p>Moreover, I&#39;ve given facts that make me look as irresponsible as possible. In real life, I can&#39;t tell whether my health insurance is adequate, because the insurance company can retroactively cancel my policy years later if I made an error on the enrollment forms.</p>
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		<title>By: ryan yin</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/12/is-medicaid-something-i-dreamed/#comment-26655</link>
		<dc:creator>ryan yin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s true that expanding Medicaid doesn&#039;t help curb either the price of health care or expenditures on health care.  But then again, neither do the actual bills going through Congress.  That doesn&#039;t even seem to be the issue Klein is addressing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#39;s true that expanding Medicaid doesn&#39;t help curb either the price of health care or expenditures on health care.  But then again, neither do the actual bills going through Congress.  That doesn&#39;t even seem to be the issue Klein is addressing.</p>
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		<title>By: MichaelDrew</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/12/is-medicaid-something-i-dreamed/#comment-26654</link>
		<dc:creator>MichaelDrew</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve thought this myself.  Two parts to the answer are that 1) Medicaid ends up being run by the states with (fairly hobbled) federal assistance, so broadly informing people about accessing it is difficult.  Certainly that&#039;s fixable.  And 2) it doesn&#039;t address the problem of insurance growing more and more unaffordable and less valuable in terms of benefits even for those who earn far more than would ever be considered for Medicaid eligibility, even under the furthest extension of eligibility limits we might contemplate.  In actuality, the bill does in fact expand Medicaid, up to smething like 185% percent of poverty.  But that gets you up to like $19,000/yr for an individual.  Insurance remains a problem for people making 2 and 3 times that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#39;ve thought this myself.  Two parts to the answer are that 1) Medicaid ends up being run by the states with (fairly hobbled) federal assistance, so broadly informing people about accessing it is difficult.  Certainly that&#39;s fixable.  And 2) it doesn&#39;t address the problem of insurance growing more and more unaffordable and less valuable in terms of benefits even for those who earn far more than would ever be considered for Medicaid eligibility, even under the furthest extension of eligibility limits we might contemplate.  In actuality, the bill does in fact expand Medicaid, up to smething like 185% percent of poverty.  But that gets you up to like $19,000/yr for an individual.  Insurance remains a problem for people making 2 and 3 times that.</p>
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