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		<title>The Public Option</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry L. Chambers, Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The public option took a shot to the kidney yesterday.  The punch was hard and it was not fair, but it is just a part of the game.  The public option may be getting a standing eight-count in boxing parlance, but it should not be counted out.  In the next several weeks, the pressure will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care and Dog Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Zietlow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, I have ahad a taste of what it might be like not to have health insurance for members of my family.  Fortunately, my experience did not involve uninsured children, but instead an uninsured dog.  My puppy, Owen, just turned 6 months old and he does not have health insurance.  Being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and Paterson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry L. Chambers, Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, news circulated suggesting that President Barack Obama sent emissaries to attempt to convinced New York Governor David Paterson to exit the 2010 New York gubernatorial race.   I have heard some argue that the president&#8217;s attempt is anti-democratic and that the voters of New York should decide who their governor will be.  Of course, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the United States Any Longer Governable? Was It Ever Governable?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Justin Lipkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This may be an overly saturnine observation, but it seems that the United States is no longer governable&#8211;if by &#8220;governable&#8221; one means implementing the positions that win elections. The current Health Care Reform crisis is one of many such examples, but there are others also. Indeed, it&#8217;s a good test case.  If we get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Money</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=3700</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Zietlow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Supreme Court heard the oral argument Citizens United v. FEC, which could become a landmark First Amendment case.  At issue is the constitutionality of the FEC&#8217;s ban of anti-Hillary documentary sponsored by corporate funds.  The Court could decide the issue narrowly, on the grounds that this particular commercial speech was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shoe Thrower and the Flame Thrower</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry L. Chambers, Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interestingly enough, this week has seen the release of the Iraqi journalist who threw a shoe at President Bush on his trip to Iraq last year as well as the continued discussion of the Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) &#8220;You lie&#8221; lie thrown at President Obama during his address to Congress last week.  Interestingly, the two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Without a Public Option</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=3686</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Justin Lipkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone mentioned that without a public option, the health care reform bill will be a bill protecting Heath Insurance Company&#8217;s profits. Just how will health care costs decrease without competition? Opponents of the public option never seem to provide a satisfactory answer to this question.
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		<title>Coarsening of Public Discourse</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=3677</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Justin Lipkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has American public discourse ever been as vitriolic and dangerous as it is now? If not, what&#8217;s the explanation? Is it protecting the wealthy by concentrating on relatively distractions such as the Obama &#8220;takeover,&#8221; and other issues that don&#8217;t go to the heart of the inegalitarian character of American society? It is possible for us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why a Trigger is No Substitute for a Public Option</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=3667</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Justin Lipkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How will the so-called &#8220;trigger&#8221; work? What will insurance companies need to do to avoid the trigger? Will the trigger have &#8220;teeth&#8221;? And what will &#8220;teeth&#8221; amount to? No one seems to take these questions seriously. As such, the trigger seems to be a gimmick providing cover for those who oppose a public action. There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care &#8211; Now?</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=3663</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Zietlow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been quite a week.  I watched folks marching in the Labor Day parade carrying &#8220;Health Care Now&#8221; signs, and heard an enthusiastic crowd member call out, &#8220;Health care yesterday!&#8221;  I talked to my friend whose husband lost his job about her difficult decision about whether or not to take her son to [...]]]></description>
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