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Philly to CIGNA, Congress: “Health care now!”

September 26, 2009 By Ben Sears

PHILADELPHIA — Arlene Holt Baker, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO, speaking to a dense crowd of over 800 gathered on the north side of City Hall here, placed the importance of the health care struggle...

Californians to top insurer: Stop denying our care!

September 26, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

SAN FRANCISCO - "Big Insurance: Stop denying our care! Public option Now!" and "Big Insurance: Sick of it!" read the signs, as hundreds of protesters jammed into the small sidewalk space in front of Wellpoint/Anthem Blue...

Health care rallies: ‘Big Insurance Makes Me Sick!’

September 24, 2009 By Tim Wheeler

OWINGS MILLS, MD.--Fighters for health care reform holding placards with slogans like “People Before Profit” and “Public Option Now” rallied outside health insurance company offices Sept. 22 to demand that Congress stop kowtowing to insurance profiteers...

Health insurance premiums grow faster than wages

September 24, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu

While wage growth, impacted by inflation, has eroded steadily over the past decade, the cost of a typical health insurance plan has grown as much as 150 percent, a new report put out by the Obama...

Flood victims hail $35 billion water main bill

September 24, 2009 By Tim Wheeler

DUNDALK, Md. — Stirred to action by the rupture of a 72-inch water-main that inflicted devastation on working-class communities here last weekend, Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., introduced the Water Infrastructure Financing Act in the U.S. Senate...