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	<title>USW Blog &#187; health care</title>
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	<description>USW Fighting Globally For Workers&#039; Dignity</description>
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		<title>Bipartisan Group Tells Super Committee: Don’t Tax Workers’ Health Care</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/09/bipartisan-group-tells-super-committee-don%e2%80%99t-tax-workers%e2%80%99-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employer-provided health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fire Fighters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[super committee]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12010</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Pantelis, a lieutenant with the Prince George’s County Fire and EMS Department in Landover, Md., says that taxing employer-provided health care benefits—a proposal before the so-called budget deficit “Super Committee”—would “hurt millions of working class Americans.” Pantelis, president of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Local 1619, spoke at a Capitol Hill conference today where Rep. Joe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did FDR Call It Or What?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/15/did-fdr-call-it-or-what/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/15/did-fdr-call-it-or-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Influence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Fairness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[FDR’s premonitions about the ways Republicans would treat Social Security, saving homes, and work for the unemployed are stunning and scary. Take a look:]]></description>
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		<title>Americans Hate Rep. Ryan&#8217;s Medicare Plan</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/25/americans-hate-rep-ryans-medicare-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/25/americans-hate-rep-ryans-medicare-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Schultz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vouchers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=9671</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Ed Show &#8230; Recent polls show GOP candidates could suffer from unpopular policy decisions and proposals by Republicans in Congress and elsewhere.]]></description>
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		<title>Stories from the Kitchen Table: America’s Middle Class Is Struggling</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/25/stories-from-the-kitchen-table-america%e2%80%99s-middle-class-is-struggling/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/25/stories-from-the-kitchen-table-america%e2%80%99s-middle-class-is-struggling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jared Bernstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retirement security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[union blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=9658</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When revenue problems forced the Central Community Schools in DeWitt, Iowa, to cut back on expenses, Amanda Greubel and her husband, Josh, who both work at the schools, kept their jobs but lost $10,000 a year in income. With a five-year-old and another child due in December, a mortgage and student loans to pay, their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death By 1,000 Medicaid Cuts</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/17/death-by-1000-medicaid-cuts/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/17/death-by-1000-medicaid-cuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=9483</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Budget-cutting can be a bloody business, depending upon where and how deeply one cuts. It can be a deadly business too. Not for the budget-cutters, though. That&#8217;s especially true for Medicaid. To understand that, you need look no further than Arizona. It was just earlier this year that Arizona was grabbed the spotlight as an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reject Bad Advice and Bad Policy &#8212; Defend Medicare, Social Security.</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/02/9091/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/02/9091/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>May</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entitlements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Ryan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Hickey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week's special election in New York's 26th Congressional district was a political earthquake, demonstrating that the American majority, even in the most Republican of districts, will reject a candidate who embraces cuts to Medicare benefits or major changes to that most popular program. And, since almost every Republican in the House -- and now the Senate -- has voted for such drastic changes, Democrats across the country are happily learning how they can campaign to win back the House and keep the Senate.
But we can't let Democrats undercut themselves again. Even as most of them practice their talking points about the Republican plan to dismantle Medicare, prominent beltway Democrats and Washington pundits are advising candidates that pressing their advantage on Medicare would not be the right thing to do. And others are urging Democrats to embrace policies -- like cutting Social Security benefits -- which would just as unpopular as dismantling Medicare and would confuse voters and undermine a winning message.
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		<title>What Americans Want</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/25/what-americans-want/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/25/what-americans-want/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 12:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From In These Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatization]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=8873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A national budget tells a lot more about a country and its politics than simply where the government’s money comes from and where it goes. As President Obama rightly stressed, it is also “about the kind of future we want …[and] the kind of country we believe in.”

But as happens so often in the United States, the political and media establishments distort the public debate by accepting the right-wing’s framing. In this case that means the issue is simply deficits and spending cuts, not national needs and adequate revenue. In this context, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the architect of the Republican budget plan, gets taken seriously when he proposes—with echoes of Vietnam—that we destroy Medicare in order to save it.

Consequently, the public is confused. More significantly, the corporate media give progressive alternatives short shrift, even though opinion polls show the public often supports such measures.]]></description>
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		<title>AFL-CIO, NNU Back New Universal Health Care Bill</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/13/afl-cio-nnu-back-new-universal-health-care-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/13/afl-cio-nnu-back-new-universal-health-care-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 19:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim McDermott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Nurses United]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NNU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[single-payer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[union blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mike Hall AFL-CIO Senior Writer Last year, when Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, it was a “historic milestone on our path toward a more just society,” says AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker, “But we also know that much work is left to be done.” That work includes moving to a single-payer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Give Trillions to Health Insurance Companies</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/10/republicans-give-trillions-to-health-insurance-companies/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/10/republicans-give-trillions-to-health-insurance-companies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 19:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Our Allies and Partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget Cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Center for Economic and Policy Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CEPR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Koch Brothers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Ryan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Ryan Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=8581</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ethan Rome Executive Director, Health Care for America Now! If the Republicans have their way and privatize Medicare, it will put millions of seniors at the mercy of health insurance companies and force them to pay $39 trillion more for Medicare coverage than they would under existing law, according to the Center for Economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Battle Is Over Money, Not Philosophy</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/01/the-battle-is-over-money-not-philosophy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/01/the-battle-is-over-money-not-philosophy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 12:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare Vouchers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Ryan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Ryan Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Ryan Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Ryan Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Medicare Plan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Ever since House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan put out his proposal for voucherizing Medicare we have seen a steady drumbeat of stories telling us that this is a battle over the size and role of government. This is not true. It is a battle [...]]]></description>
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