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	<title>Blue Crab Boulevard &#187; Medicine</title>
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		<title>The Ford Pinto Health Plan</title>
		<link>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/02/03/the-ford-pinto-health-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/02/03/the-ford-pinto-health-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 02:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=16044</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Turley in USA Today points out the Democrat&#8217;s complicity in Judge Vinson&#8217;s ruling that declared ObamaCare null and void. Bottom line &#8211; they screwed up, bigtime: Yet the failure of lawmakers to insert a boilerplate severability clause is the &#8230; <a href="http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/02/03/the-ford-pinto-health-plan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats Reject Repeal</title>
		<link>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/02/02/democrats-reject-repeal/</link>
		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/02/02/democrats-reject-repeal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not surprising, but long-term damage has been incurred by the Democrats who have to face the voters in 2012. TweetTweet]]></description>
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		<title>The Entire Act Is Declared Void</title>
		<link>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/31/the-entire-act-is-declared-void/</link>
		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/31/the-entire-act-is-declared-void/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Federal judge has declared the entire ObamaCare act void. Stressing that the individual mandate was unconstitutional and that the government had argued that the mandate was absolutely essential to the entire act, the judge followed the logic and declared &#8230; <a href="http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/31/the-entire-act-is-declared-void/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>It Begins With Repeal</title>
		<link>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/21/it-begins-with-repeal/</link>
		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/21/it-begins-with-repeal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=15788</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer explains it: If you think that&#8217;s audacious, consider this: Obamacare does not create just one new entitlement (health insurance for everyone); it actually creates a second &#8211; long-term care insurance. With an aging population, and with long-term care &#8230; <a href="http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/21/it-begins-with-repeal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Repealing ObamaCare Polling Well</title>
		<link>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/20/repealing-obamacare-polling-well/</link>
		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/20/repealing-obamacare-polling-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=15781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bad news for Democrats. TweetTweet]]></description>
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		<title>Yuck Factor</title>
		<link>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/19/yuck-factor/</link>
		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/19/yuck-factor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gee, you think? Once a year, every year, Professor Thomas Borody receives a single-stem rose from one of his most grateful patients. She is, he says, thanking him for restoring her bowel flora. It&#8217;s a distasteful cure for a problem &#8230; <a href="http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/19/yuck-factor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>ObamaCare Repeal Passes In House</title>
		<link>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/19/obamacare-repeal-passes-in-house/</link>
		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/19/obamacare-repeal-passes-in-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=15768</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I know it will be blocked by Reid in the Senate. But it passed &#8211; with three Democrats joining the Republicans to pass it, 245 to 189: House Republicans passed a bill to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care &#8230; <a href="http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/19/obamacare-repeal-passes-in-house/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Damage</title>
		<link>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/19/damage-3/</link>
		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/19/damage-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sally Pipes in the New York Post: Repeal of ObamaCare can&#8217;t come soon enough &#8212; as several damaging provisions are set to take effect this year. For starters, it has effectively stopped the construction of physician-owned hospitals throughout the country. &#8230; <a href="http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/19/damage-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>ObamaFraud</title>
		<link>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/18/obamafraud/</link>
		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/18/obamafraud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=15754</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The true costs of ObamaCare are staggering: The fantasy of deficit reduction from the ACA is also built on a $410 billion tax increase over the coming decade, and a flood of revenue in the years after built on cynically &#8230; <a href="http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/18/obamafraud/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Hikes</title>
		<link>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/16/tax-hikes/</link>
		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/16/tax-hikes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=15727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Americans for Tax Reform have compiled a comprehensive list of tax hikes included in ObamaCare: Next week, the U.S. House of Representatives will be voting on an historic repeal of the Obamacare law.  While there are many reasons to oppose &#8230; <a href="http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2011/01/16/tax-hikes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Time To Listen To Your Doctor, America</title>
		<link>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2010/09/01/time-to-listen-to-your-doctor-america/</link>
		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2010/09/01/time-to-listen-to-your-doctor-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, you have to &#8211; if you want to have any quality of life: To counter this election-year ruse, my colleagues and I at Docs4PatientCare are enlisting thousands of doctors in an unorthodox and unprecedented action. Our patients have always &#8230; <a href="http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2010/09/01/time-to-listen-to-your-doctor-america/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Boots And Spurs Of Donald Berwick</title>
		<link>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2010/07/07/the-boots-and-spurs-of-donald-berwick/</link>
		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2010/07/07/the-boots-and-spurs-of-donald-berwick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=15495</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson, 10 days before his death, politely declined attending 4th of July celebrations in the District of Columbia in a polite letter containing these words: The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every &#8230; <a href="http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2010/07/07/the-boots-and-spurs-of-donald-berwick/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re Here To Help</title>
		<link>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2010/06/21/were-here-to-help/</link>
		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2010/06/21/were-here-to-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=15432</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After all, we&#8217;re from ObamaCare. The first of many unpleasant surprises from health care &#8220;reform&#8221; is hitting those Americans who buy their own coverage. Say hello to  a 20% rate increase &#8211; effective immediately: U.S. health insurers are raising prices &#8230; <a href="http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2010/06/21/were-here-to-help/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why Jump Over The Cliff?</title>
		<link>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2010/03/15/why-jump-over-the-cliff/</link>
		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2010/03/15/why-jump-over-the-cliff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Orange County Register: The argument is made that not passing a bill will create an aura of failure around the administration and the Democrats, hurting them much more than passing a bill with a bare majority in the face &#8230; <a href="http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2010/03/15/why-jump-over-the-cliff/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The New Rich</title>
		<link>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2010/03/05/the-new-rich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[USA Today brings out yet another shocker: Federal pay exceeds that of private sector jobs of the same type. And the Federal benefits for those lavishly paid positions are absolutely obscene: Overall, federal workers earned an average salary of $67,691 &#8230; <a href="http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2010/03/05/the-new-rich/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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