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	<title>USW Blog &#187; public option</title>
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	<description>USW Fighting Globally For Workers&#039; Dignity</description>
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		<title>New Ryan Proposal Still Aims to Eliminate Medicare, Replace with Voucher Plan</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/15/new-ryan-proposal-still-aims-to-eliminate-medicare-replace-with-voucher-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/15/new-ryan-proposal-still-aims-to-eliminate-medicare-replace-with-voucher-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breaking News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care For All]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare Cost Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public option]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Wyden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Plan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, Republican House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan will present his new &#8220;bi-partisan compromise&#8221; plan to a meeting of an outfit known as the &#8220;Bipartisan Policy Center.&#8221; Ryan&#8217;s latest proposal would allow individuals to choose between traditional Medicare or vouchers that provide &#8220;premium support&#8221; for private insurance plans. Here&#8217;s what you need to know about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Virginia Court&#8217;s Health Ruling an Inadvertent Progressive Victory?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/12/14/is-virginia-court%e2%80%99s-health-ruling-an-inadvertent-progressive-victory/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/12/14/is-virginia-court%e2%80%99s-health-ruling-an-inadvertent-progressive-victory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From David Sirota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public option]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By David Sirota Political journalist, best-selling author and syndicated newspaper columnist Over the past few hours, the mediasphere has been ablaze with talk that Republicans and their insurance industry backers supposedly won a huge victory with a Virginia court&#8217;s ruling that the mandate to buy private insurance is unconstitutional. On the policy merits, this seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consider Workers Compensation Insurance</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/12/24/consider-workers-compensation-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/12/24/consider-workers-compensation-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public option]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workers compensation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=1799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some years ago I was a staff attorney for the USW. At that time, in the 70s, there was no private option for the legally-required purchase of workers compensation insurance. It was all, and may still be, public workers compensation insurance only, in West Virginia, and some other  states.  This may be worthy of mention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slouching Toward Healthcare Reform</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/12/17/slouching-toward-healthcare-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/12/17/slouching-toward-healthcare-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Nelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Lieberman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olympia Snowe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public option]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Reich]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=1708</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[              By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley &#8220;Don&#8217;t make the perfect the enemy of the better,&#8221; says the President and congressional insiders when confronted with the sorry spectacle of a health-care bill whose scope and ambition continue to shrink, and whose long-term costs to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ersatz Public Option</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/11/23/the-ersatz-public-option/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/11/23/the-ersatz-public-option/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public option]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Reich]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=1366</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[              By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley First there was Medicare for all 300 million of us. But that was a non-starter because private insurers and Big Pharma wouldn&#8217;t hear of it, and Republicans and &#8220;centrists&#8221; thought it was too much like what they [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AHIP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[America’s Health Insurance Plans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baucus bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[middle class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Krugman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Evan Bayh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Max Baucus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate Finance Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate Health Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uninsured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Steelworkers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=1193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard USW International President The meeting got testy. Voices rose last Thursday among Democrats over differences in the Senate Finance and Health committee versions of insurance reform. Max Baucus defended his committee’s bill, voted out last week with one Republican, but lacking a public option and burdening the middle class. He said, [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<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>
		<description><![CDATA[  By David Sirota Political journalist, best-selling author and syndicated newspaper columnist I don’t get it. I know that’s the simplistic refrain of every 10-year-old, but I’m 33 and I mean it: I just don’t get it. Specifically, I don’t get why Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe (R) &#8212; or any Republican senator, for that matter [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[property insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public option]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></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>
		<description><![CDATA[ By David Cay Johnston Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Atop the front page of the  Sept. 23 New York Times  is a color photo of Georgia homes flooded up to their rafters, an image that illustrates how when it comes to insurance our Congress applies two standards, separate and unequal, one for property and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care: Let the Majority Be Heard</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/08/19/health-care-let-the-majority-be-heard/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/08/19/health-care-let-the-majority-be-heard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JColeman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public option]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=898</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Borasage Co-Director of the Campaign for America’s Future The editors of the Wall Street Journal say that the public option in health care reform has been &#8220;sent to the death panel.&#8221; Obama &#8220;concedes&#8221; the public option, reports the Financial Times. Even liberals seem to agree. The public option is &#8220;all but gone,&#8221; writes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For the Health of the Nation: Ensure a Public Option</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/07/14/for-the-health-of-the-nation-ensure-a-public-option/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/07/14/for-the-health-of-the-nation-ensure-a-public-option/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Medical Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Broadcasting Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Atul Gawande]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infant mortality]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kiefer Sutherland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life expectancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New England Journal of Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pre-existing conditions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public option]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[single-payer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New Yorker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tommy Douglas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[universal health care]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=784</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President Just days ago, America celebrated her birthday with fireworks, spontaneous renditions of the Star Spangled Banner and chants of, &#8220;We&#8217;re Number One!&#8221; In a crucial area, health care, the chant is untrue. Many of us love the individual doctors who may have saved our lives or the lives of [...]]]></description>
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