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	<title>USW Blog &#187; health insurance</title>
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		<title>Resolutions, Political Resolutions and Damned Lies</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/03/resolutions-political-resolutions-and-damned-lies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one fusses when New Year’s Resolutions aren’t kept. Wild resolutions offered by presidential candidates are taken with a grain of salt. But damned lies are different and dangerous. Damned lies subvert trust in the political system, which needs the faith of the electorate to function. Damned lies may be an integral part of Republican strategy since the GOP hates government of the people by the people and hopes to shrink it small enough to drown in a bathtub.]]></description>
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		<title>Occupiers Protest at U.S. Chamber of Commerce Event</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/19/occupiers-protest-at-u-s-chamber-of-commerce-event/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/19/occupiers-protest-at-u-s-chamber-of-commerce-event/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blue Cross Blue Shield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care industry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Serota]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protesters disrupted a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event on health care, interrupting speaker Scott Serota, the CEO of Blue Cross &#038; Blue Shield. Chanting “we are the 99 percent,” the protesters stood at the luncheon event and used a “human microphone” technique to read a statement about how the “the one percent in the health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Corporate Greed and Political Collusion</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/31/a-tale-of-corporate-greed-and-political-collusion/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/31/a-tale-of-corporate-greed-and-political-collusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Our Allies and Partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care for America Now]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Koch Brothers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical-loss ratio]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida Gov. Rick Scott wants to cheat the families of his state out of $140 million in health insurance rebates. If Scott gets his way, it could harm consumers across the country. Ripping off consumers and the health care system isn&#8217;t new to Florida Gov. Rick Scott. He got rich leading a hospital company that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Lawmaker Listen to You &#8212; Or to Extremists?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/26/does-your-lawmaker-listen-to-you-or-to-extremists/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/26/does-your-lawmaker-listen-to-you-or-to-extremists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extremists]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is the person elected to represent you listening to you, or is he or she hearing only Tea Party and GOP extremists who yell things like &#8220;let him die,&#8221; to the question of whether an uninsured person should get medical care?]]></description>
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		<title>Answer the Question: Would You Let the Uninsured Die?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/20/answer-the-question-would-you-let-the-uninsured-die/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/20/answer-the-question-would-you-let-the-uninsured-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The candidates for the Republican and Tea Party nomination for president stood silent at a debate when the questioner asked if society should allow an uninsured coma victim to die. The Tea Party audience, however, made clear its answer: let him die!]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Party Candidate, Crowd Call for Death Rather Than Treatment for 30-year-old Uninsured Man in Coma</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/17/tea-party-candidate-crowd-call-for-death-rather-than-treatment-for-30-year-old-uninsured-man-in-coma/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/17/tea-party-candidate-crowd-call-for-death-rather-than-treatment-for-30-year-old-uninsured-man-in-coma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beware: The Tea Party would have a 30-year-old uninsured man who falls into a coma die. In fact, the Tea Party and Republican crowd cheers when that possibility is suggested.]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Plotting to Revoke $2 Billion in Consumer Rebates to Boost  Insurer Profits</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/15/republicans-plotting-to-revoke-2-billion-in-consumer-rebates-to-boost-insurer-profits-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/15/republicans-plotting-to-revoke-2-billion-in-consumer-rebates-to-boost-insurer-profits-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While the Republican candidates for President made it clear in their debate this week that they are happy to let uninsured people die if they have a serious illness, the Republicans in Congress are plotting to make people with insurance pay even more for their coverage to boost insurance company profits. How? By stealing nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contagion in Rick Perry&#8217;s Texas</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/12/contagion-in-rick-perrys-texas/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/12/contagion-in-rick-perrys-texas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11028</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just purchased tickets to see the new movie &#8220;Contagion,&#8221; about a mysterious virus that spreads with deadly havoc around the globe. But after reading this article by the Los Angeles Times, I&#8217;m realizing that the real health horror story is not coming from Hollywood but from Texas. That is where we&#8217;re getting a real-world [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Republican Strategy for a Budget that Destroys Medicare? Say It &#8220;Saves Medicare.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/22/republican-strategy-for-a-budget-that-destroys-medicare-say-it-saves-medicare/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/22/republican-strategy-for-a-budget-that-destroys-medicare-say-it-saves-medicare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bill Scher Executive editor of LiberalOasis.com You are a congressperson. You just voted for a budget that would destroy Medicare. Then you traveled home this week to meet with your constituents. Most of them like Medicare. What do you tell them? Tell them you want to &#8220;save Medicare.&#8221; Bloomberg reports: House Speaker John Boehner [...]]]></description>
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