Posts Tagged ‘NNU’
The Real Fix for Obamacare’s Flaws: Medicare for All
By RoseAnn DeMoro for the Guardian – Lost amidst the well-chronicled travails of the Affordable Care Act rollout are the long term effects of people struggling to get the health coverage they need without going bankrupt. If that sounds familiar, it’s because that’s been the main story line of the US healthcare system for several…
Read MoreNot-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 MoreIt would not be the end of health reform, just a chance to get it right
By Rose Ann DeMoro for the Huffington Post – If President Obama is now confiding to Democratic donors that he may have to “revisit” health care in a second term if the Supreme Court throws out his first attempt, as Bloomberg News reported June 1, maybe this time we can get it right. Instead of…
Read MoreNurses, Robin Hood, Prepare to Converge on Chicago May 18
Healthcare-NOW! is proud to be one of more than 85 environmental, labor, and health groups to endorse National Nurses United’s “Protest the Global 1%” march and rally on May 18 in Chicago. As part of their Main Street Not Wall Street campaign, NNU is calling for a financial transaction tax – or Robin Hood tax…
Read MoreOccupy US Health Care
By Mary O’Brien for Common Dreams – After wincing a bit from the free flu shot, my young patient turned to me and said, “What you’re doing here is awesome – it’s so hard get health care!” “Here” happened to be New York City’s Zuccotti Park in mid-November, the epicenter of Occupy Wall Street, just…
Read MoreVideo: Healthcare-NOW! at National Nurses United Rally on Nov. 3
National Nurses United (NNU) held a day of action on November 3rd in support of the Financial Transactions Tax, a tax on Wall Street transactions that would raise $350 billion. Vanessa Beck from Healthcare-NOW! speaks about why we also need a single-payer national healthcare system.
Read MoreThursday, November 3rd: Make Wall Street Pay!
Join Healthcare-NOW! and National Nurses United for a day of action on Thursday November 3rd. We have to let the world know we will not let the 1% continue to steal our money or cut Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security–the programs that help keep us housed, healthy, and fed through hard times and older age.…
Read MoreNurses to President Obama: Don’t Cut Healthcare, Retirement; Raise Corporate Taxes, End Wars
RNs Won’t Endorse Politicians who Vote to Cut Social Security In advance of President Obama’s speech Wednesday on the budget deficit, the nation’s largest union and professional association of nurses today called on the President to oppose any cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security – and strengthen the nation’s economy by restoring fair taxes…
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