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	<title>Health Care for Health Care Workers</title>
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		<title>Two Weeks and Counting: Tell Congress that This Is It</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress has debated health care reform for over a year.  Both the House and the Senate have passed health care reform bills.  The time for action is now.  We need you to make sure that Congress finishes the job right by guaranteeing affordable health care for working families.
Now is the time to call you Member [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell Congress to Listen to You, Not Big Insurance!</title>
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		<comments>http://hchcw.org/archives/tell-congress-to-listen-to-you-not-big-insurance#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mozga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insurance companies are raising rates as much as 39% but fewer and fewer Americans have coverage. Health care costs are crushing our families and small businesses. We’ve had enough of insurance companies’ denial of claims, inflated profits, and soaring premiums.  
John Booker, a direct-care worker in Indiana, can’t wait any longer for reform. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March on Washington for Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mozga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday, Melanie’s March, a historic march on Washington for health care reform, kicked off in Philadelphia.  
Participants are walking the 135 miles to D.C. over eight days in honor of Melanie Shouse, a health care reform volunteer and Obama supporter who died recently of cancer because she did not have health coverage.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HHS Releases Report on Insurance Company Price Hikes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mozga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[/a>Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has released Insurance Companies Prosper, Families Suffer: Our Broken Health Insurance System.
The report cites half a dozen examples, from Maine to Washington State, in which insurers, despite record profits last year, have sought outrageous premium increases for people who buy coverage individually (i.e., those who are not covered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Call-In Day TODAY!</title>
		<link>http://hchcw.org/archives/national-call-in-day-125</link>
		<comments>http://hchcw.org/archives/national-call-in-day-125#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mozga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call Congress at (800) 828-0498 and tell your member of Congress to pass reform now that will provide secure, affordable coverage for all American families!
Dear Direct-Care Workforce Advocates:
Some opponents of health reform would like us to think that last week&#8217;s election in Massachusetts signals the demise of national reform. While the number of Democrats in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ending GENDER DISCRIMINATION Is Essential to Health Reform</title>
		<link>http://hchcw.org/archives/ending-gender-discrimination-is-essential-to-health-reform</link>
		<comments>http://hchcw.org/archives/ending-gender-discrimination-is-essential-to-health-reform#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mozga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call Congress at (800) 828-0498 and tell your legislators that you want health reform that eliminates gender discrimination!
The Pennsylvania home health care company Linda Bettinazzi runs is charged about $6,800 per worker for health insurance &#8212; $2,000 more than the national average for single coverage. One reason: nearly every one of her 175 employees is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Bill Must Include INSURANCE MARKET REFORM</title>
		<link>http://hchcw.org/archives/health-care-bill-must-include-insurance-market-reform</link>
		<comments>http://hchcw.org/archives/health-care-bill-must-include-insurance-market-reform#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mozga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call Congress at (800) 828-0498 and tell your legislators that you want health reform that includes insurance market reform!
Like millions of other Americans, Helen Hanson and her husband, of South China, Maine, couldn&#8217;t afford to buy comprehensive health insurance. In her job as a direct-care worker caring for Maine&#8217;s elders, wages are low, and Helen&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help the Senate Pass Historic Health Care Legislation!</title>
		<link>http://hchcw.org/archives/help-the-senate-pass-historic-health-care-legislation</link>
		<comments>http://hchcw.org/archives/help-the-senate-pass-historic-health-care-legislation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mozga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY! Call (800) 828-0498 and tell your senators to support the health care bill and keep the process moving forward!
This weekend Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced an amended health reform bill. The new bill won the support of 60 senators, thereby overcoming one of the most difficult hurdles on the road [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Reform Must Ensure COMPREHENSIVE Benefits</title>
		<link>http://hchcw.org/archives/meaningful-reform-must-provide-inexpensive-benefits</link>
		<comments>http://hchcw.org/archives/meaningful-reform-must-provide-inexpensive-benefits#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mozga</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hchcw.org/?p=1287</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Call Congress at (800) 828-0498 and tell your legislators that you want health reform that includes comprehensive benefits!
Marva Diggins, of the Bronx, New York, bathes, dresses, and prepares meals for her elderly client seven days a week. Her client, who is in her late 80s, has cardiac problems, memory loss, and uses a wheelchair. Marva [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Reform Must Include an EXCHANGE</title>
		<link>http://hchcw.org/archives/health-reform-must-include-an-exchange</link>
		<comments>http://hchcw.org/archives/health-reform-must-include-an-exchange#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mozga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call Congress at (800) 828-0498 and tell your legislators that you want health reform that includes an exchange!
John Booker is a direct-care worker living in South Bend, Indiana. Like many direct-care workers serving elders and people with disabilities, he has lived without health coverage throughout his 30-year career as a caregiver. &#8220;My wages are low [...]]]></description>
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