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Title: Coal miners’ much-needed health care collides with budget showdown

*Authors:* Lisa Desjardins

*Source: * PBS NewsHour

*Date *April 19, 2017

Summary: Seventy years ago, President Truman forged a deal where coal companies and the union agreed to fund lifelong health care pensions. The government never intended to pay for these benefits, but Congress has become a funder of last resort. Now some 22,000 retired union miners and their widows will lose their health care if Congress doesn't act.

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