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	<title>The Schrug</title>
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	<description>David Schrag examines his navel and the world around it</description>
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		<title>How the government takeover of health care affects me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought things were complicated last year when I had to renew my small business’s health insurance plan. Back then, I was choosing between 25 different plans offered by the same insurer: Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare. (I could have gone with other insurers as well, but I’d been happy to that point with Harvard and had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidschrag.com/schrug/2010/03/04/how-the-government-takeover-of-health-care-affects-me/</link>
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		<title>My take on the health care summit, part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing my observations from the previous post …

Someone needs to take a poll of the American public: “Do you support the idea of having the Federal government create minimum standards for private health insurance policies?” I’m betting at least 60% say yes, and probably a lot more if you point out that the Federal government [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidschrag.com/schrug/2010/02/25/my-take-on-the-health-care-summit-part-2/</link>
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		<title>My take on the health care summit, part 1</title>
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The discussion is flawed from the get-go. You can’t simultaneously rail against the private health care insurance industry and insist that everyone should buy into it. (See comment below regarding pre-existing conditions.)
To tamp down on partisanship, they should have mixed up the seating arrangements so that Democrats and Republicans were intermingled. I’m sure the legislators [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidschrag.com/schrug/2010/02/25/my-take-on-the-health-care-summit-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Why health insurance is not the answer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I cannot for the life of me understand why people are fighting so hard to make sure everyone has health insurance when what we need is basic health care. If we’re successful in getting 30 million more people covered by insurance, what we’re going to end up with is 30 million more stories like this. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidschrag.com/schrug/2010/02/03/why-health-insurance-is-not-the-answer/</link>
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		<title>State of the Union: The Most Important Paragraph</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of all the things President Obama said last night, the one that would have made me stand up and applaud was this:
[W]hat frustrates the American people is a Washington where every day is Election Day. We cannot wage a perpetual campaign where the only goal is to see who can get the most embarrassing headlines [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidschrag.com/schrug/2010/01/28/state-of-the-union-the-most-important-paragraph/</link>
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		<title>Whose lines are they, anyway?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, now I’m a little (??) obsessed with this viral video thing, even to the point of creating a new video in response to my first one.
The “other version” of the Hitler-Coakley-Brown video has now received well over a million views. But not only on DrRonPaul2012’s page. The same video has been uploaded to YouTube [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidschrag.com/schrug/2010/01/22/whose-lines-are-they-anyway/</link>
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		<title>How exactly does one go viral?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a brilliant idea last night as the gloom of the Martha Coakley debacle set in. I was trying to imagine how President Obama must have been feeling as the returns were announced, and I thought of that scene from Downfall that has been endlessly parodied on YouTube. (Quick side note: I had to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidschrag.com/schrug/2010/01/20/how-exactly-does-one-go-viral/</link>
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		<title>Ever heard of Mitt Romney?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a wee bit of historical perspective on the election results from the “overwhelmingly Democratic state of Massachusetts” – some gubernatorial election results:
2002: Mitt Romney (R), 50%; Shannon O’Brien (D), 45%
1998: Paul Celluci (R), 51%; Scott Harshbarger (D), 47%
1994: Bill Weld (R), 71%; Mark Roosevelt (D), 28%
1990: Bill Weld (R), 50%; John Silber (R in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidschrag.com/schrug/2010/01/19/ever-heard-of-mitt-romney/</link>
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		<title>The United States is the Country of No</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend-of-a-Facebook-friend said today that he’d voted for “real change” in the form of Scott Brown, the Republican senatorial candidate in Massachusetts. I asked, “real change from what to what?” He hasn’t yet responded.
A vote for Scott Brown is not a vote for real change. It’s a vote for no change. And somehow that seems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidschrag.com/schrug/2010/01/19/the-united-states-is-the-country-of-no/</link>
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		<title>Mommy, where do urban legends come from?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Carrying condoms in DC could get you arrested.”
That warning was posted on Facebook by a magazine targeted to teenage girls. (No, I don’t read the magazine myself. It’s published by a client of mine.) I read that post a couple times and said to myself, “that can’t be right.” And in fact, it’s not. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidschrag.com/schrug/2010/01/13/mommy-where-do-urban-legends-come-from/</link>
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