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Watch out for Citizens Health Care Working Group

September 16, 2005 By Phil E. Benjamin

As grassroots activists across the country pressure Congress and state capitols for universal, affordable health care, they are in danger of being whacked by a little known congressionally pushed “group.” The dishonestly named Citizens’ Health Care...

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Worker safety & health + organizing = Rx for success

August 19, 2005 By Phil E. Benjamin

There is no disagreement among all of labor that workers and their unions did a good job mobilizing members to vote in 2004. The problem that most of labor agrees on is that the Democratic Party...

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Beware these coalition proposals

June 10, 2005 By Phil E. Benjamin

A May 29 New York Times article by Robert Pear, “Health Leaders Seek Consensus Over Uninsured,” reported that “24 ideologically disparate leaders representing the health care industry, corporations and unions, and conservative and liberal groups have...

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Corporate influence on health exposed

June 3, 2005 By Phil E. Benjamin

The average family medical cost this year will exceed $12,200 — up from $8,000 just four years ago — according to the Milliman Medical Index, a corporate consulting firm. To a large extent this reflects the...

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Labor unity crucial to national health care fight

May 20, 2005 By Phil E. Benjamin

The complexity of the profit-based U.S. health care system is well known. It is a patchwork quilt of corporations seeking to maximize their profits. For the nation’s unions, this has meant the necessity of dealing with...

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Autoworkers and health care

April 22, 2005 By Phil E. Benjamin

The April 11 issue of Business Week had the following headline: “Will the UAW cut GM some slack?” adding, “The union faces a tough call on whether to help carmaker pare health care costs.”

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Policy wonks project key health care issues

February 4, 2005 By Phil E. Benjamin

A year-end report from the Commonwealth Fund highlights core, mainstream health care issues. These, in turn, show some key points of struggle in 2005.

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Workers comp cut is gift to bosses

January 14, 2005 By Phil E. Benjamin

Gov. Arnold Schwartzenegger slashed the California workers’ compensation law to gain the support of employers and insurance carriers. It was nothing new for Republican politicians to attack a system, which is difficult to understand, and at...

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