Creating the Future of Health Care with SB 562 Town Hall July 22 in Oakland

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The campaign for the Healthy California Act is inviting area residents to a community town hall meeting on Saturday, July 22, in Oakland to learn about SB 562, a bill that would guarantee health care to all Californians by establishing a Medicare-for-all type system.
California Nurses Association
Jul 21, 2017

Millinocket Regional Hospital Nurses Hold Rally to Highlight Patient Care, Nurse Retaliation Issues

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Registered nurses at Millinocket Regional Hospital (MRH) will hold an informational picket on Monday, July 31 to protest the hospital administration’s continued refusal to address ongoing patient safety concerns—including a variety of safe staffing issues—and their heavy-handed attempts to silence nurses.
Maine State Nurses Association
Jul 21, 2017

The Public Option – Doomed From the Start

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With the collapse of the dismal Republican healthcare bill, some Democrats are reviving talk of a public option as the cure for the holes in the Affordable Care Act that opened the door for the GOP attack.
NNU Executive Director, RoseAnn DeMoro writing for Common Dreams

How the Cleveland Clinic grows healthier while its neighbors stay sick

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On the Cleveland Clinic’s sprawling campus one day last year, the hospital's brain trust sat in all-white rooms and under soaring ceilings, looking down on a park outside and planning the next expansion of the $8 billion health system.
Dan Diamond, Politico

How hospitals got richer off Obamacare

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A decade after the nation’s top hospitals used all their advertising and lobbying clout to keep their tax-exempt status, pointing to their vast givebacks to their communities, they have seen their revenue soar while cutting back on the very givebacks they were touting, according to a POLITICO analysis.
Dan Diamond, Politico

Since When Is It Not Okay to Play Hardball With the Democrats?

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Despite efforts by the political establishment to shut it down, the quest for a state-based, Medicare-for-all type system in California, based on patient need, not corporate profits, rolls on.
NNU Executive Director, RoseAnn DeMoro writing for The Nation

Nurses Scolded: Not OKAY to Play Hardball with Democrats

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The seminal fight for single-payer healthcare in California reflects a national struggle for the movement for social change. So, no, organized nurses and our allies will not wait. And we will not back down.
NNU Executive Director, RoseAnn DeMoro writing for Common Dreams