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		<title>Progressives and Conservatives Agree: Single Payer Healthcare Is Inevitable</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The new health care legislation is a step toward elimination, by slow strangulation, of private health insurance and establishment of government as the ‘single payer.’”            - George Will, in his weekly newspaper column, Sunday July 11, 2010 Everyone loves to pick on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and well they should.  This 2,000+ page contraption, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hchp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3222774&amp;post=175&amp;subd=hchp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WellPoint Press Conference April 7, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The press conference outside WellPoint headquarters in downtown Indianapolis was a tremendous success.  See the HCHP website for media coverage, including TV.  Here is the text of Dr Stone&#8217;s statement: People ask me, why should WellPoint shareholders vote for the proposal that the company explore returning to its traditional Blue Cross, charitable, not-for-profit mission? The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hchp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3222774&amp;post=168&amp;subd=hchp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WellPoint Shareholder Proposal &#8211; Feasibility of Non-profit Conversion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is the text of our resolution that will be included in the WellPoint proxy statement released the first week in April, 2010, with the annual meeting to be held the morning of Tuesday May 18, in Indianapolis. PROPOSAL NO. 3     SHAREHOLDER PROPOSAL CONCERNING A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR CONVERTING TO NONPROFIT STATUS We have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hchp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3222774&amp;post=166&amp;subd=hchp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Would FDR Do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had some face time with Rahm Emmanuel two weeks ago at my friend Owen’s. (Owen&#8217;s brother-in-law is the former Chair of the Democratic National Committee.)  Rahm said nothing surprising, but made his points.  He had just finished David Kennedy&#8217;s 1999 book Freedom from Fear about WW II, the Depression, and, germane to this conversation, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hchp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3222774&amp;post=163&amp;subd=hchp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fightin&#8217; The Blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a cold and rainy December 2, while the Senate in Washington was slogging along debating health reform, a remnant troupe of public-option supporting Organizing for America stalwarts stood outside the corporate headquarters of WellPoint, Inc. in the center of downtown Indianapolis.  Minutes before their demonstration started, three single payer activists slipped in and out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hchp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3222774&amp;post=159&amp;subd=hchp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the House Bill Better Than Nothing &#8211; Continued again&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; One of my professors years ago was a round little man who liked to warn us, with a twinkle in his eye, &#8220;Making predictions is very difficult, especially predictions about the future.&#8221;  Will a bill pass, in what form, and then what will the long term implications be?  It&#8217;s hard to predict. The incomparable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hchp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3222774&amp;post=155&amp;subd=hchp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the House bill better than nothing (continued)</title>
		<link>http://hchp.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/is-the-house-bill-better-than-nothing-continued/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; More comments from worthy commentators &#8211; Jonathan Cohn, a highly respected single payer advocate and writer, in The New Republic writes about why we should support the bill and urge its passage in the Senate, and Dennis Kucinich discusses why he voted against the House Bill.  For commentary from HCHP&#8217;s own Dr Aaron Carroll, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hchp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3222774&amp;post=147&amp;subd=hchp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the House Health Care Bill Better than Nothing?</title>
		<link>http://hchp.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/is-the-house-health-care-bill-better-than-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What to make of the health care bill passed late in the night on 11/7? Below are two (long) commentaries by writers I greatly respect.  Marcia Angell is the iconic former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and a stalwart single payer advocate.  Maggie Mahar is a thoughtful non-single-payer healthcare writer, the author [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hchp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3222774&amp;post=141&amp;subd=hchp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Play the Single Payer Card</title>
		<link>http://hchp.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/time-to-play-the-single-payer-card/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rob Stone MD  March 30,2009 &#8220;First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.&#8221;  - Ghandi A health care reform bill out of Congress by the end of the summer?  An end to our national nightmare within five months?  The health insurance industry is banking on an Obama-Kennedy-Baucus bailout [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hchp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3222774&amp;post=134&amp;subd=hchp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>National Call-in Day February 12</title>
		<link>http://hchp.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/national-call-in-day-february-12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The National Single Payer Alliance National Call-in Day for HR 676 February 12, 2009     Lincoln&#8217;s Birthday Dear Friend,    The Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Healthcare is encouraging everyone to participate in the next National Call-in Day for HR 676. Mark your calendars.    February 12, 2009: Call Congress - Congressional switchboard: 202-224-3121 - ask for your representative&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hchp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3222774&amp;post=108&amp;subd=hchp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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