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		<title>Health Care Success Story in MN, ND, &amp; SD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health Care Success Story in MN, ND, &#38; SD. Well-informed patient advocacy and member participation are the keys. Health Systems Management helps members and their families take maximum advantage of the data they’ve collected on hospitals, doctors, and outcomes throughout our region; they make sure no one slips through the cracks. In brief, Local 49 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2830139&amp;post=914&amp;subd=obamesque&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership, Obama-Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike dictatorships, we participate actively in our government in the United States, and so it becomes our collective legacy &#8211; our goal is to ensure the best parts of our experience here persist while we seek to polish up and refurbish the areas that need improvement.  It will always be a work in progress, thriving [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2830139&amp;post=906&amp;subd=obamesque&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Republican double-standards on government-run health care insurance?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of October, 151 Congressmen had &#8220;government-controlled&#8221; health care insurance plans. That&#8217;s close to 30% of our elected officials. 55 Republicans on that list have steadfastly opposed other Americans getting the public option, like the one they have chosen. Here&#8217;s the list as it stood in October. If Republicans in Congress think government controlled health-care [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2830139&amp;post=892&amp;subd=obamesque&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and the Congress: Televised Health Care Summit &#8211; what&#8217;s POSSIBLE?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["...televised forum offers the potential, merely the potential, that the public appearance will provide the pressure necessary to get most of the Senate Democrats to sign on, coupled to the extreme likelihood that we'll hear bluster from the other side about the consequences of the "nuclear option" of reconciliation...

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		<title>Senator Franken lays groundwork for Obama&#8217;s Health Care Reform announcement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-MN) was the star of the rally to support Health Care Insurance Reform at the Minneapolis United Labor Center one day prior to President Obama&#8217;s announcements intended to overcome the GOP-backed gridlock in the Congress. Senator Franken stressed his personal commitment to advancing reform despite the lockstep approach of Congressional Republicans [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2830139&amp;post=877&amp;subd=obamesque&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Search of Leadership in Congress: Paying for Health Care</title>
		<link>http://obamesque.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/insurance-profiteers-control-elected-leaders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are the people in Congress today opposing health care insurance changes scared to face down one money-making industry, or simply greedy?

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		<title>State of the Union: A New Foundation</title>
		<link>http://obamesque.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/a-new-foundation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama gave a dynamic, thoughtful State of the Union address [transcript] with a good balance between summarizing the progress his administration has made, with some admitted stumbles along the way, and outlining what he wants to focus on in both the near-term and over the longer sweep of time which responsible planning and budgeting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2830139&amp;post=840&amp;subd=obamesque&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rybak targeted for recovering tax-payer money!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A shadowy smear campaign evidently intended to convince Minnesotans to stay home on caucus night, February 2, 2010 is underway &#8212; especially if they’re thinking of supporting Minneapolis Mayor Raymond &#8220;R.T.&#8221; Rybak in his bid to secure the party endorsement to run for Governor of Minnesota in November. The facts are chasing the lies. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2830139&amp;post=835&amp;subd=obamesque&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts: Follow the money before you swallow the spin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>GOP strategists and right-wing pundits blow a chance responding to Reid&#8217;s gaffe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Melissa Harris-Lacewell offers an excellent perspective in her article &#8220;What Reid&#8217;s Race Gaffe Tells Us About Inequality&#8220; published at The Nation. Nobody&#8217;s surprised that the opposition party would leap on such a gaffe, but if they sincerely want to accomplish real change, not just pay lip-service, it will require going another route. The response [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2830139&amp;post=808&amp;subd=obamesque&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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