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Miners arrested in fight to end Peabody’s stealing of health benefits
Coal execs deserve “a cell next to Bernie Madoff” Peabody Coal Mine St. Louis,MO. February 13, 2013. Shirley Inman was arrested for peaceful, civil disobedience as she protested at the Peabody Energy...
View ArticleOver 7,000 March to Demand Return of Stolen Health Benefits
16 arrested in Charleston, WV Charleston,West Virginia. April 1, 2013. They boarded buses and cars before dawn, some the night before, coming from the coalfields of...
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Some unions protest Obamacare’s impact on Multiemployer Health Plans
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010, also known as Obamacare, presents challenges to the multiemployer plans through which some unions bargain collectively to provide health care insurance for their...
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Discretionary Deeming: How One Town Got Improved Medicare
Buried deep in the health reform law is Section 10323. It amends the Social Security Act to extend Medicare coverage to individuals exposed to environmental health hazards in the region defined by the...
View ArticleThe Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhuman.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., March 25, 1966 Yet 48 years after Dr. King spoke those words, our country...
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Vicco, Ky, Stays in Spotlight, Endorses Single Payer, HR 676
After 22 years in the coal mines, Jimmy Slone is still working—now as a City Commissioner for Vicco, Kentucky. His black lung disease does not stop him from getting up in the middle of the night to...
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Unions Can Lead the Struggle for Single-Payer Health Care
Despite passage of the 2010 health care reform bill, employers continue to push for cuts in benefits and to shift costs to workers in higher monthly payments, co-pays, and deductibles. Wage increases...
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