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NARH Nurses Vote to Authorize Strike

PATIENT SAFETY AND QUALITY OF LIFE AT STAKE The registered nurses of the North Adams Regional Hospital (NARH) voted overwhelmingly July 19 to authorize their union leadership to call a strike if necessary in their ongoing negotiations with hospital management. In a unified show of strength, 99% of the voting members voted in favor of…

Action Alert: Expect Better from PBS

Recently, we announced Frontline’s new program, “Obama’s Deal,” which included a segment that featured single-payer advocates arrested in the Senate Finance Committee protesting the exclusion of single-payer witnesses from the proceedings. It exposed some of the sordid deals struck by congressional lawmakers and the White House with the health insurance industry and Big Pharma. While…

Diary of a Wimpy Health Care Bill

By Rose Ann DeMoro, Executive Director, National Nurses United – Passage of President Obama’s healthcare bill proves that Congress can enact comprehensive social legislation in the face of virulent rightwing opposition. Now that we have an insurance bill, can we move on to healthcare reform? As an organization of registered nurses, we have an obligation…

Listen: Discussing the Health Bill and the Individual Mandate

If you missed last night’s national conference call on the recently passed health bill and the individual mandate, you can listen to it here. We had about 250 people on this call, and we’d like to thank you for participating, and donating. This call’s success means that we can keep organizing national conference calls in…

Monday Night: Let’s Discuss the Health Bill

Join Healthcare-NOW! for a conference call exposing the last minute negotiations of the health care bill and the ramifications of the mandate to purchase private insurance when public programs like Medicaid and Medicare suffer. The conference call is tomorrow, Monday, March 22nd at 8 PM EST. Guest speakers include: – Michael Lighty, Policy Director for…

Nurses Blast 39% Anthem Blue Cross Rate Hike “Stronger Medicine Needed to End Insurance Abuses”

The nation’s largest union and professional organization of registered nurses, National Nurses United, today joined the national condemnation of Anthem Blue Cross for imposing rate hikes of up to 39 percent for Californians with individual policies, but said the outrage must “go beyond words to action to end insurance abuses once and for all.” “Anthem’s…

Dateline NBC Brings the Sarkisyan Family and Wendell Potter Together

Mother Hilda Sarkisyan, takes her fight for her daughter Nataline to recieve a liver transplant to the executive headquarters of health insurance giant CIGNA. Her battle inspires top executive Wendell Potter to resign and become a leading advocate for reform. Dateline NBC, segment 5, with Sarkisyan, CNA protest & Nataline’s death. Visit msnbc.com for breaking…

California Health Professional Student Alliance Single Payer Rally in Sacramento (Video)

About a thousand California Health Professional Student Alliance marchers and supporters gathered on the steps of the Capitol in Sacramento to rally for single payer health care reform–their fifth annual event. Featured speaker was Senator Mark Leno, author of SB 810, California OneCare, the single payer bill now making its way through the legislature. The…

Before You Carve that Turkey: All In for Bernie Sanders

By Donna Smith – Those millions of us who support a Medicare for All, single-payer, reform for the healthcare crisis in this nation have some work to do over the next few days. Senators are on their way to their home states for the one-week Thanksgiving recess – and they need a little up close…

Single Payer State Option Threatened in House

By Donna Smith – When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces the healthcare bill she plans to bring to the floor Thursday, will it still have the amendment that allows individual states the option of bypassing legal barriers to pass state single payer bills? Apparently not, in the latest concession to the insurance industry, Blue Dog…