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		<title>Handing People Eternal Paradise</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 22:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear United Healthcare &#8220;Golden Rule&#8221; Bureaucrat:
Today I read an article from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune entitled McGuire&#8217;s payday is a shame, if not a crime, which discusses notorious former United HealthGroup&#8217;s CEO Bill McGuire who was a hot topic in 2005 until he had to step down from his position:
&#8220;Dollar Bill&#8221; has made lots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Leg to Stand On</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 21:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear United Healthcare &#8220;Golden Rule&#8221; Bureaucrat:
My Canadian friends have begun expressing their compassion for my being American and insurance-less. Karina (a Toronto native) points out: &#8220;I&#8217;ve heard horror stories about the American health system, but it is always that much more real, more shocking, when such things happen to someone that you care about.&#8221;
Our country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Riddle Me This, Bureaucrat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear United Healthcare &#8220;Golden Rule&#8221; Bureaucrat:
Riddle me this, Bureaucrat: if you were going to deny my insurance claims if my doctor found anything wrong with me in the first two years of coverage, then why didn&#8217;t you require a physical examination before you would issue a policy at all?
At least we would all have known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank You, United Healthcare Bureaucrat</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 21:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear United Healthcare &#8220;Golden Rule&#8221; Bureaucrat:
I would like to thank you for denying my insurance claim and rescinding my coverage while I was in the middle of chemotherapy.
For many years, I experienced a deep and paralyzing fear of making noise. I don&#8217;t mean audible noise: I mean Making Noise, attracting attention, asserting my will in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to a Faceless Bureaucrat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 14:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Faceless United Healthcare &#8220;Golden Rule&#8221; Bureaucrat:
Of course I mean &#8220;faceless&#8221; metaphorically. I&#8217;m sure you have a face. At least I hope you do. If you don&#8217;t, you have my full sympathy, and I hope you have health insurance and that your facelessness was not ruled a pre-existing condition.
I mean, how much would it suck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golden Rule &amp; Guantanamo Bay</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 16:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s talk about legality.
So I&#8217;m still investigating the details of this matter, but let&#8217;s look at how things are laid out right now.
Because I went to a massage therapist off and on last year&#8230; and because the massage therapist mentioned I might want to see my doctor if the swelling by my collarbone didn&#8217;t go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United Health Care &#8220;Golden Rule&#8221; Awarded &#8220;Most Ironic Company Name Ever&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 16:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bethadele.com/spork/?p=309</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year I signed up for health insurance.
I had just turned thirty, and mortality was on my mind. I had never had any health problems, I come from a healthy family, and I had figured it was just easier to run under the radar. When I turned thirty, I thought it was time to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cracked On Its Wheel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 15:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hodgkin's Status Update]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My blood counts are down today from last week. Neutrophils are hovering at the bottom of &#8220;normal&#8221; range, but my overall counts were down to 2.4 (marked simply with a &#8220;C&#8221; in the margin of my blood work sheet: &#8220;C&#8221; for &#8220;Critical&#8221;).
Neulasta works. It also retails around $7,000 per shot. An Everest of a number [...]]]></description>
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