Universal Insurance or Universal Healthcare?
There’s a lot of talk about healthcare reform. But only a fundamental change – a single-payer system, premised on an improved and expanded Medicare for all – will solve our nation’s healthcare crisis and create a more humane, affordable system with one standard of quality care for everyone. Insurance-based plans create a windfall for HMOs and leave the insurance companies in charge of our health. Don’t settle for the worst solution, demand the best.
HUGE HEALTHCARE RALLY IN SACRAMENTO
May 8th - North Steps of the Capitol @ Noon |
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More than 2,000 RNs, school employees, community activists, and other supporters of genuine healthcare reform rallied at the California State Capitol in Sacramento May 8 urging passage of SB 840 in California and HR 676 in Washington.
Supporters of genuine healthcare reform surround a Trojan Horse, filled with insurance company agents, symbolizing the phony insurance- based healthcare model proposed by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
California State Sen. Sheila Kuehl addresses a huge rally at the State Capitol in Sacramento May 8 to talk about her genuine healthcare reform bill, SB 840.
CNA/NNOC Board members rally for genuine healthcare reform in Sacramento May 8, 2007.
The California School Employees Association were among a wide variety of labor, religious, and community groups who participated in Tuesday's historic rally for healthcare.
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REAL PEOPLE DENIED REAL HEALTHCARE
Webisode 5 - Cynthia & Allan Campbell
Real People DENIED Real Healthcare - Webisode #5
Watch this story about how an RN of 30 years is dropped from her health insurance just before being diagnosed with two stage four cancers.
HR 676, the United States National Health Insurance Act, has been endorsed by more than 240 union organizations in 40 states, including 17 state AFL-CIOs and 61 Central Labor Councils and Area Labor Federations.
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Blue Cross Abuses "Hole-in-Heart" Baby
Being a Blue Cross patient sometimes sound like being a character in a horror movie. The latest: a four-year old boy in California is born with a hole in his heart, as soon as Blue Cross finds out they cancel the family’s policy. Cruel. Read the whole story after the flip, along with an update on families forced into near-indentured servitude by medical bills, and good news in the fight for affordable prescription drugs and guaranteed healthcare. Read today's blog.
Nurses tell of tattered health system - Access to care is still inadequate, they say
Times Picayune 05/08/07
Halted health coverage suit may be far-reaching - An appeals court will weigh Blue Shield's retroactive cancellation of a car-crash patient.
Los Angeles Times 05/07/07
Health protection yanked
The San Luis Obispo Tribune 05/03/07
Un seguro médico, para todos, de por vida
El Diario 04/24/07
The Health of Nations - Here's how Canada, France, Britain, Germany, and our own Veterans Health Administration manage to cover everybody at less cost and with better care than we do.
American Prospect 04/24/07
Women likelier to forgo healthcare
Los Angeles Times 04/23/07
MANDATORY HEALTH INSURANCE - THE FIRST YEAR - Progress and perils - Thousands more in state have coverage under ambitious program, but challenges lie ahead over funding and getting message out to all
Boston Globe 04/22/07
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Incremental Health Reform: Whose Life Doesn't Count?
Huffington Post 04/11/07
By CNA/NNOC Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro
Walter Reed not the issue
South Florida Sun Sentinel 04/09/07
By CNA/NNOC President Deborah Burger, RN
Whose Life Doesn't Count?enter for Labor Renewal 04/04/07
By CNA/NNOC Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro
In health care reform, California needn't settle for second best
San Jose Mercury News 03/29/07
By CNA/NNOC President Emeritus Kay McVay, RN
Clean Money Bill Would Help Push for Real Healthcare Reform
Huffington Post 03/22/07
By CNA/NNOC President Deborah Burger, RN
We're All at Walter Reed
Huffington Post 03/06/07
By CNA/NNOC President Deborah Burger, RN
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Get the facts about: HR 676 (Conyers)
The United States National Health Insurance Act establishes an American a single payer health care system. The bill would create a publicly financed, privately delivered health care program that uses the already existing Medicare program by expanding and improving it to all U.S. residents, and all residents living in U.S. territories. The goal of the legislation is to ensure that all Americans, guaranteed by law, will have access to the highest quality and cost effective health care services regardless of one's employment, income, or health care status.
Get the facts about: SB 840 (Kuehl)
The California Health Insurance Reliability Act would establish a California Health Insurance System to be administered by the newly created California Health Insurance Agency under the control of an elected Health Insurance Commissioner. The bill would make all California residents eligible for specified health care benefits under the California Health Insurance System, which would, on a single-payer basis, negotiate for or set fees for health care services provided through the system and pay claims for those services.
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