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		<title>Keep Your Hands Off My Medicare!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[﻿By Katrina vanden Heuvel for the Nation &#8211; It’s been a common refrain of politicians in Washington for as long as the capitol has been unpopular: “It’s good to get outside the Beltway, good to go get back to the real America.” But in recent days that cliché might feel a bit stale for Republican [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What we&#8217;re not being told about Paul Ryan&#8217;s Medicare plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The mainstream media has failed to report that the Ryan plan is a privatization program that will hand $30tn to insurers By Dean Baker for the Guardian &#8211; The film Casablanca features one of greatest moments in movie history. With Humphrey Bogart standing with a smoking pistol over the body of the dead Gestapo major, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Republicans Propose $4 Trillion in Cuts Over Decade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Carl Hulse for the New York Times &#8211; House Republicans plan this week to propose more than $4 trillion in federal spending reductions over the next decade by reshaping popular programs like Medicare, the Budget Committee chairman said Sunday in opening a new front in the intensifying budget wars. Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WSJ/NBC Poll: Hands Off Medicare, Social Security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many Deem Big Cuts to Entitlements &#8216;Unacceptable,&#8217; but Retirement and Means Testing Draw Support By NEIL KING JR. and SCOTT GREENBERG for the WSJ &#8211; WASHINGTON— Less than a quarter of Americans support making significant cuts to Social Security or Medicare to tackle the country&#8217;s mounting deficit, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.handsoffourmedicare.org/wsjnbc-poll-hands-off-medicare-social-security/</link>
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		<title>Medicaid Roulette</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If the GOP has its way, states could take full control over health care for the poor (snip, snip). By Suzy Khimm for Mother Jones &#8211; Republicans have a new target, and its name is Medicaid. A few weeks ago, at the sidelines of the budget debate, Republicans quietly began to float proposals to roll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisconsin Union Battle Masks Medicaid Tensions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Christopher Weaver for Kaiser Health News &#8211; Hiding out at a secret location in Illinois, Wisconsin state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout ends every media interview with the same warning: Republican Gov. Scott Walker&#8217;s attack on public employee unions is overshadowing another part of his budget plan that could shred the state&#8217;s health care safety net. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Medicaid Panel Backs Cuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Thomas Kaplan for the New York Times &#8211; ALBANY — In an unexpected vote, a committee appointed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to cut billions in health care spending approved on Thursday an annual spending cap and across-the-board reductions for all Medicaid providers. The vote, on 79 cost-cutting measures, was part of a sweeping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Obama Economic Aide: Social Security Reform Not A Part Of Discussion On Fiscal Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sam Stein for Huffington Post &#8211; Lost amid the budget battles in Congress and the anti-union legislation being considered in several states has been the White House&#8217;s deliberate decision to take the topic of Social Security reform off the deficit debate menu. The latest move in that direction came on Tuesday, when Jason Furman, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.handsoffourmedicare.org/top-obama-economic-aide-social-security-reform-not-a-part-of-discussion-on-fiscal-future/</link>
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		<title>The only hoax here is the so-called crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social Security&#8217;s critics are stoking baseless fears. By Theodore R. Marmor and Jerry L. Mashaw for Philly.com &#8211; The continuing discourse about the federal budget deficit and Social Security has proven to be thoroughly misleading and confusing. As a result, most Americans are understandably uncertain about the financial stability of Social Security and its connection [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.handsoffourmedicare.org/the-only-hoax-here-is-the-so-called-crisis/</link>
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		<title>John Boehner On Entitlement Cuts: &#8216;Everything Is On The Table&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Elise Foly for Huffington Post &#8211; WASHINGTON &#8212; House Republicans remain divided on whether their upcoming budget for fiscal year 2012 will include cuts to government entitlement programs, but Speaker John Boehner suggested Tuesday that reductions in Social Security and Medicare funding were indeed possible. &#8220;Republicans will not punt,&#8221; Boehner (R-Ohio) said at a [...]]]></description>
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