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	<title>Comments on: Health Insurance in the United States</title>
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		<title>By: Theresa</title>
		<link>http://artassocialinquiry.org/projects/healthcare/comment-page-1/#comment-268</link>
		<dc:creator>Theresa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 12:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you so much for commenting on the portrait of the young woman who died.  Yes, I agree,the portrait is scary and morbid.  But I wanted to show how our current health care system did not work for her and it cost her her life. All politics aside, horrible things are happening that perhaps we&#039;re not all aware of or they are desensitized to. The painting depicts that for me.  I have been in close contact with the mother of the girl in the portrait.  She agrees that she wants the circumstances of her daughter&#039;s death known so it never happens again. So she supports the painting.(I am painting a beautiful painting of the young woman in the portrait that came to me in a dream.  And that will be for her mother.) Thank you again for commenting. Encourage others to do so.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you so much for commenting on the portrait of the young woman who died.  Yes, I agree,the portrait is scary and morbid.  But I wanted to show how our current health care system did not work for her and it cost her her life. All politics aside, horrible things are happening that perhaps we&#8217;re not all aware of or they are desensitized to. The painting depicts that for me.  I have been in close contact with the mother of the girl in the portrait.  She agrees that she wants the circumstances of her daughter&#8217;s death known so it never happens again. So she supports the painting.(I am painting a beautiful painting of the young woman in the portrait that came to me in a dream.  And that will be for her mother.) Thank you again for commenting. Encourage others to do so.</p>
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		<title>By: LY</title>
		<link>http://artassocialinquiry.org/projects/healthcare/comment-page-1/#comment-262</link>
		<dc:creator>LY</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 17:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The picture of the 23 year old that passed away with the hat on is SCARY, I don&#039;t believe her family would want to see her depicted that way, I know I certainly don&#039;t she was a beautiful person with a beautiful soul and this picture does not do her justice it is just down right scary and frankly MORBID... she deserves to be shown in a beautiful way not a deathly way... we want to remember her life not an artistic vision of death being depicted in a picture!!!!!!!  I suggest you either take it down and get rid of it, or paint another one that would honor her not scare everyone or make people sad.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The picture of the 23 year old that passed away with the hat on is SCARY, I don&#8217;t believe her family would want to see her depicted that way, I know I certainly don&#8217;t she was a beautiful person with a beautiful soul and this picture does not do her justice it is just down right scary and frankly MORBID&#8230; she deserves to be shown in a beautiful way not a deathly way&#8230; we want to remember her life not an artistic vision of death being depicted in a picture!!!!!!!  I suggest you either take it down and get rid of it, or paint another one that would honor her not scare everyone or make people sad.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://artassocialinquiry.org/projects/healthcare/comment-page-1/#comment-238</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 14:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>WOW! LOVE where you are going with this! These portraits really speak to me.  The people really come through and the 23 year old that passed, you really captured this scary feeling and she seems like she is fading away in the portrait. Her true self anyway. The portrait seems to depict the aftermath of the ugliness of an unkind system. SAD.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WOW! LOVE where you are going with this! These portraits really speak to me.  The people really come through and the 23 year old that passed, you really captured this scary feeling and she seems like she is fading away in the portrait. Her true self anyway. The portrait seems to depict the aftermath of the ugliness of an unkind system. SAD.</p>
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		<title>By: aasi</title>
		<link>http://artassocialinquiry.org/projects/healthcare/comment-page-1/#comment-53</link>
		<dc:creator>aasi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you, Sherry!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you, Sherry!</p>
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		<title>By: sherry</title>
		<link>http://artassocialinquiry.org/projects/healthcare/comment-page-1/#comment-52</link>
		<dc:creator>sherry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Theresa,
Your portraits are getting better and better. Keep up the Good Work!!!
sincerely,
Sherry McVickar</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Theresa,<br />
Your portraits are getting better and better. Keep up the Good Work!!!<br />
sincerely,<br />
Sherry McVickar</p>
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		<title>By: B. Cohen</title>
		<link>http://artassocialinquiry.org/projects/healthcare/comment-page-1/#comment-22</link>
		<dc:creator>B. Cohen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 03:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am lucky that I (and our son) get health benefits through my Partner&#039;s plan. We are lucky that the Health Institution she works for recognizes Domestic Partners. We had to jump through relatively small hoops to get them.  They do take up a pretty big chunk of the salary pie, but otherwise, we&#039;d be paying almost 20K a year for them.  I work for myself...and used to use Penns. Chamber of Commerce to get group health rates.  It was the most basic insurance a single person could get...but it was all I could afford.  It was a risk/benefit thing, and luckily, I was young and healthy enough that it got me by...I don&#039;t know what I&#039;d do now.....with a son to support if I was on my own again....move to Europe where healthcare is Nationalized????</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am lucky that I (and our son) get health benefits through my Partner&#8217;s plan. We are lucky that the Health Institution she works for recognizes Domestic Partners. We had to jump through relatively small hoops to get them.  They do take up a pretty big chunk of the salary pie, but otherwise, we&#8217;d be paying almost 20K a year for them.  I work for myself&#8230;and used to use Penns. Chamber of Commerce to get group health rates.  It was the most basic insurance a single person could get&#8230;but it was all I could afford.  It was a risk/benefit thing, and luckily, I was young and healthy enough that it got me by&#8230;I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;d do now&#8230;..with a son to support if I was on my own again&#8230;.move to Europe where healthcare is Nationalized????</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://artassocialinquiry.org/projects/healthcare/comment-page-1/#comment-20</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 21:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I believe everyone should have health care.  If you are a drug addict or poor you can get it through the state.  If you are rich and have the money you can get it becaue you can afford it. Or others that get it through their jobs with great benefits.  What about the middle man that doesn&#039;t get it through their jobs? They aren&#039;t poor enough to get it for free or they end up paying through the nose to have it.  Also, I would like to see health care embracing alternative medicine.  Why can&#039;t people choose the route they want to go when it comes to there bodies?  Healthcare only pays for main stream medicine and I think that&#039;s a crime!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I believe everyone should have health care.  If you are a drug addict or poor you can get it through the state.  If you are rich and have the money you can get it becaue you can afford it. Or others that get it through their jobs with great benefits.  What about the middle man that doesn&#8217;t get it through their jobs? They aren&#8217;t poor enough to get it for free or they end up paying through the nose to have it.  Also, I would like to see health care embracing alternative medicine.  Why can&#8217;t people choose the route they want to go when it comes to there bodies?  Healthcare only pays for main stream medicine and I think that&#8217;s a crime!</p>
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		<title>By: Maura</title>
		<link>http://artassocialinquiry.org/projects/healthcare/comment-page-1/#comment-16</link>
		<dc:creator>Maura</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Interestingly, NY&#039;s governor Paterson wants to address this issue of young uninsured adults who are not yet covered by health insurance in their jobs.

To all those who say &quot;We can&#039;t afford to pay for any more subsidized health care&quot; realize that if we don&#039;t pay for good health care on the front end (routine office visits and tests) you will pay on the back end in the ER.  That&#039;s where sick people go when they are desperate.  Then the hospitals don&#039;t get paid for the ER visit. And the government has to reimburse the hospital so they don&#039;t close their doors.  We pay the government in increased taxes.  We are going to pay one way or another.  Better to do it in an organized, planned fashion.  Unless of course, we are willing to become a country that allows people to die alone behind their doors or on the street.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interestingly, NY&#8217;s governor Paterson wants to address this issue of young uninsured adults who are not yet covered by health insurance in their jobs.</p>
<p>To all those who say &#8220;We can&#8217;t afford to pay for any more subsidized health care&#8221; realize that if we don&#8217;t pay for good health care on the front end (routine office visits and tests) you will pay on the back end in the ER.  That&#8217;s where sick people go when they are desperate.  Then the hospitals don&#8217;t get paid for the ER visit. And the government has to reimburse the hospital so they don&#8217;t close their doors.  We pay the government in increased taxes.  We are going to pay one way or another.  Better to do it in an organized, planned fashion.  Unless of course, we are willing to become a country that allows people to die alone behind their doors or on the street.</p>
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