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	<description>Organizing for a national, single-payer healthcare system.</description>
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		<title>Become a Healthcare-NOW! Member Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Healthcare-NOW! network has grown tremendously over the past year. New single-payer coalitions and groups are forming all over the country, and more individuals are becoming involved in our work.
To keep up, Healthcare-NOW! must expand our capacity and resources to continue building the movement for meaningful reform that will end our healthcare crisis.
That&#8217;s why we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthcare-now.org/become-a-healthcare-now-member-today/</link>
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		<title>Will Jerry Brown Sign Single Payer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Single Payer Action &#8211; 
When Jerry Brown was running for President in 1992, he wholeheartedly embraced a single payer national health insurance system.
“When I see in Canada that they pay $500 less per person, that they cover every citizen, and that they live two years longer and their infant mortality is 50 percent less [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthcare-now.org/will-jerry-brown-sign-single-payer/</link>
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		<title>Kill Bill: Death to Obamacare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dave Lindorff for Counterpunch &#8211; 
When Obama came to my neighborhood this week to press for public support for his health “reform” bill, he wasn’t just greeted by teaparty hecklers. Speaking to a large group of mostly supportive students and local residents at Arcadia University in Glenside, the president at one point mentioned that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthcare-now.org/kill-bill-death-to-obamacare/</link>
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		<title>If Private Health Insurance Companies Are Evil, Why Are You Forcing Me to Be a Customer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jon Walker for Fire Dog Lake &#8211; 
A big part of the final push for this health care reform effort is focused on how terrible the private insurance companies are. On the White House blog, communications director Dan Pfeiffer is attacking the huge premium increases and monopoly power of some private insurers. HCAN is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthcare-now.org/if-private-health-insurance-companies-are-evil-why-are-you-forcing-me-to-be-a-customer/</link>
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		<title>Former Rep. Massa Claims He Was Forced Out over Healthcare Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Democracy NOW! &#8211; 
Meanwhile, Democratic leaders in the House are scrambling to secure enough votes to pass the Senate’s version of the healthcare reform package. Intense pressure is reportedly being placed on some Democratic lawmakers to support the party line. New York Democrat Eric Massa is claiming he was forced out of Congress by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthcare-now.org/former-rep-massa-claims-he-was-forced-out-over-healthcare-bill/</link>
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		<title>Insurers Set To Raise Prices, Walk Away From Consumers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sam Stein for the Huffington Post &#8211; 
The market concentration for health insurance is so monopolized in some areas that insurance companies are willing to raise prices and lose customers in an effort to improve their bottom line, a leading insurance broker told Wall Street analysts on Wednesday.
In a conference call organized by Goldman [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthcare-now.org/insurers-set-to-raise-prices-walk-away-from-consumers/</link>
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		<title>Obama’s Reprehensible Rhetoric Against Single-Payer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Matthew Rothschild for the Progressive &#8211; 
When Barack Obama gave his “this is it” speech on health care reform on March 3, he once again swerved out of his way to hit advocates of a single-payer system.
He said: “On one end of the spectrum, there are some who have suggested scrapping our system of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthcare-now.org/obama%e2%80%99s-reprehensible-rhetoric-against-single-payer/</link>
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		<title>Eric Massa, Single-Payer Advocate in House, to Retire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Patricia Murphy for Politics Daily &#8211; 
Rep. Eric Massa, a freshman Democrat from New York, announced Wednesday that he will leave Congress at the end of this term rather than run for re-election as planned.
In a call with reporters, the congressman said his decision was based on a third recurrence of cancer, and not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthcare-now.org/eric-massa-single-payer-advocate-in-house-to-retire/</link>
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		<title>When the Health Reform Truth Oozes Out:  And it isn’t Just</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Donna Smith &#8211; 
Even the staging of the hand-picked doctors in starched white coats could not keep the truth of the healthcare reform process from oozing out of President Obama during Wednesday’s press event.   Not just…
“Everything there is to say about healthcare has been said and just about everyone has said it,” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthcare-now.org/when-the-health-reform-truth-oozes-out-and-it-isn%e2%80%99t-just/</link>
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		<title>Some companies drop health insurance, don&#8217;t tell employees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY Mary Cornatzer &#8211; 
As if having to pay higher health insurance premiums each year isn&#8217;t bad enough, now workers have another worry: companies that drop their health insurance coverage and don&#8217;t bother to tell employees.
It&#8217;s a practice that&#8217;s on the rise, says Kristin Milam with the state Department of Insurance. State law requires that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthcare-now.org/some-companies-drop-health-insurance-dont-tell-employees/</link>
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