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	<title>USW Blog &#187; health care</title>
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		<title>Hostage-Takers in the Senate</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/11/18/hostage-takers-in-the-senate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
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By Dean Baker
Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
As most of us are preparing for the holidays a small clique in the Senate, with their collaborators in the Washington punditry, are planning for a dramatic hostage-taking event. Their target of opportunity is a bill to increase the nation&#8217;s debt limit. The hostage-takers propose to obstruct [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats: Stop Kissing Elephant Trunk and Reform Health Insurance Right</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/10/18/democrats-stop-kissing-elephant-truck-and-do-insurance-reform-right/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/10/18/democrats-stop-kissing-elephant-truck-and-do-insurance-reform-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[public option]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Evan Bayh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Max Baucus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[uninsured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Steelworkers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=1193</guid>
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		<title>Good Health Care Policy Makes Good Politics &#8212; And Vice Versa</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/10/17/good-health-care-policy-makes-good-politics-%e2%80%93-and-vice-versa/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/10/17/good-health-care-policy-makes-good-politics-%e2%80%93-and-vice-versa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From David Sirota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care bill]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iraq war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public option]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Olympia Snowe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=1197</guid>
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		<title>GOP Favors Public Option for Property, Not People</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/09/28/gop-favors-public-option-for-property-not-people/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/09/28/gop-favors-public-option-for-property-not-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baucus bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cay Johnston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FEMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flood insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[floods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gene Taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haley Barbour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hurricane Katrina]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thad Cochran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trent Lott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=1078</guid>
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		<title>Obama Plans to Reform Economy, Not Just Health Insurance</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/09/16/obama-plans-to-reform-economy-not-just-health-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/09/16/obama-plans-to-reform-economy-not-just-health-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance reform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steve Skvara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teabaggers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[United Steelworkers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=1002</guid>
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		<title>Taxing Only the Rich CAN Pay for Everything</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/09/01/taxing-only-the-rich-can-pay-for-everything/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/09/01/taxing-only-the-rich-can-pay-for-everything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Center for Working-Class Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class and economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obamacare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redistribution of wealth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=933</guid>
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		<title>The Republican &#8220;Do Not Resuscitate&#8221; Plan to Let Medicare Die</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/08/21/the-republican-do-not-resuscitate-plan-to-let-medicare-die/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/08/21/the-republican-do-not-resuscitate-plan-to-let-medicare-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death panels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare Part D]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organizing for America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=910</guid>
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		<title>Gov. Palin&#8217;s Crazed Health Care Rant: Blame the Washington Post</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/08/12/gov-palins-crazed-health-care-rant-blame-the-washington-post/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/08/12/gov-palins-crazed-health-care-rant-blame-the-washington-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death panels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care bill]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Palin death panels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=882</guid>
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		<title>How Come CBS Journalists Can&#8217;t Recognize Paid Lobbyists When They See Them?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/08/08/how-come-cbs-journalists-cant-recognize-paid-lobbyists-when-they-see-them/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/08/08/how-come-cbs-journalists-cant-recognize-paid-lobbyists-when-they-see-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Americans for Prosperity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David H. Koch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Armey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Kratovil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedomworks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Forbes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Parties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wyatt Andrews]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=859</guid>
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		<title>Health Care Reform: Time to Go All In</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/08/06/health-care-reform-time-to-go-all-in/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/08/06/health-care-reform-time-to-go-all-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care debate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama White House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican obstruction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=856</guid>
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