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		<title>Now that he&#8217;s left town&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Globe has an article (February 3, 2007 by Rick Klein) entitled Romney distances self from Mass. health plan. Just as GW slunk off to Washington leaving various disasters in Texas, Mitt is doing the same.
As pointed out in the Globe article:
The plan for statewide, near-universal health coverage was the centerpiece of Romney&#8217;s administration, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector debacle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well the citizens of Massachusetts (and, indeed, the State Legislature) are waking up to just what a mess this so-called universal healthcare initiative actually is.
The front page of the Boston Globe (January 27, 2007) has an article talking about the bloated salaries being paid to the administers of this quasi-state agency (the official name is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Universal Coverage&#8230; Or Universal Rip-off?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s (January 20, 2007) Boston Globe there is an article entitled Sticker shock for state care plan talking about the new Massachusetts state-mandated health plan&#8230;
State-mandated, to be clear, means that all citizens are going to be required to have state-approved health coverage. If you cannot show that you have state-approved coverage then you will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The menace of electronic voting&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read an interesting column in the February 2007 issue of Dr. Dobb&#8217;s  (a software development  journal). The column is by Ed Nisley and he is discussing a report on the problems with electronic voting machines in Cuyahoga County, Ohio during the recent Federal election. The column is entitled Root the Vote: Wetware&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our options have changed, so please listen to the following message&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an apolitical public service announcement for everybody that is sick and tire of listening to these automated customer service phone systems (I suspect the irritation transcends all political, religious, ethnic, and racial bounderies!).
Most of us have been confronted by these automated phone systems asking us to press a particular number on the phone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Medicare Plan D SNAFU</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like a lot of other baby-boomers I have been helping my parents figure out the complexities of the Medicare Plan D drug program. So far it seems to be accomplishing its primary purpose&#8230; Channeling billions in tax dollars and subscriber premiums to the major pharmaceutical companies.
It would have been nice, however, if they had made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The first &#8220;Anal Leakage&#8221; Award goes to Royal Philips Electronics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2006 17:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since this is the first award we are giving out, a little explanation about the Anal Leakage Award is in order.
This award has been created for technologies that are sufficiently frustrating, obnoxious, or evil that we would all really prefer that the inventors had &#8220;puckered up&#8221; and kept it to themselves. It is named in [...]]]></description>
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