Posts Tagged ‘National Nurses United’
Not-For-Profit Hospitals Make Billions and Provide Little Charity Care
Not-for-profit hospitals are almost entirely tax exempt, in part because of the expectation they will provide free or low-cost “charity care” to those in need. By Kari Lydersen for In These Times – Not-for-profit hospitals, including some of the country’s biggest and best-known institutions, are almost entirely tax exempt, in part because of the expectation…
Read MoreNurses Union Will Keep Fighting for Medicare for All
By Rose Ann DeMoro for the Nation – Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act, former insurance company executive Wendell Potter’s appeal to single payer advocates to “bury the hatchet,” recently published in The Nation, is both misdirected and shortsighted. Potter argues that insurance industry pirates will exploit left critiques of…
Read MoreMedicare for all CA Bus tour: In West Covina Tonight SiCKO ‘Sisters’ Reunite
By Donna Smith – What: SiCKO Reunion on final summer 2012 Medicare for all bus tour in California When: Thursday, July 12 – health screenings 3-6 pm, and town hall at 6:30 pm Where: West Covina City Hall, 1444 W Garvey Ave Today in West Covina, the California Nurses Association summer 2012 Medicare for all…
Read MoreMedicare. For All. For Life. Everywhere.
When the Medicare for All bus gets stuck, a neighborhood shows its true spirit By Donna Smith – After spending the past month on the California Nurses Association ‘Medicare for All’ bus tour in California, I am more confident than ever about the prospects of winning guaranteed healthcare for all under an improved Medicare model.…
Read MoreRoseAnn DeMoro on the Robin Hood Tax, Single-Payer
From Moyers and Company – Bill talks to RoseAnn DeMoro, who heads the largest registered nurses union in the country, and led a Chicago march protesting economic inequality on May 18. DeMoro is championing the Robin Hood Tax, a small government levy the financial sector would pay on commercial transactions like stocks and bonds. The…
Read MoreNurses Support American Health Security Act of 2011
From National Nurses United – On Tuesday, May 10, 2011, at 10:30 a.m., EDT, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA), will hold a joint news conference at the Senate Swamp to announce the introduction of the American Health Security Act of 2011 (the Act). The Act establishes a national healthcare program that…
Read MoreNurse Protest Prompts Blue Shield to Delay Rate Hike
By Rose Ann DeMoro, Executive Director of National Nurses United – People power works, and not just in Egypt. Blue Shield of California today announced a 60-day reprieve for the unconscionable rate hike of up to 59 percent it intends to foist on individuals and families. The announcement coincided with announced plans by nurses, patients,…
Read MoreThe Deficit Commission and Cuts to Medicare, Social Security
This year, Medicare turns 45, and maintaining this important federal program and protecting it from those who want to cut it is more important than ever. Because of recent economic and natural catastrophes, many people in this country are finding their quality of life slipping to standards lower than before the 1990s. Despite this, our…
Read MoreNurses 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…
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