How to fight back when an insurer denies your healthcare claim
Insurance companies are playing the odds, patient advocates say. They’re counting on people not having the stamina to challenge every denied claim, even when there’s a valid medical reason for a drug or treatment being covered.
David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times
The Precautionary Principle is Paramount
More than two years after the West African Ebola outbreak panicked the globe, Ebola news made headlines again when researchers found evidence suggesting that the deadly virus lingers in people’s lungs.
Bonnie Castillo, RN, Director of RN Response Network and Health & Safety at NNU
HHS Nominee Tom Price Faces Insider Trading Accusations
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services bought shares in a medical device company last year and then introduced legislation in the House to help the company less than a week later, CBS News has confirmed.
Rebecca Shabad, CBS News
Healthcare hell: Fighting to overturn denied insurance claims
One focus of the planned repeal of Obamacare is maintaining coverage for people with preexisting conditions. Republican lawmakers say the current law’s safeguards won’t change, but they have yet to explain how they’ll accomplish this without also keeping the mandate that everyone buy insurance.
David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times
Instead of protesting Obamacare repeal, seek what Trump admires
Instead of mourning the expected repeal of the Affordable Care Act, let’s hold President-elect Donald Trump to his pledges on health care, while also meeting the test set by President Obama.
NNU Executive Director, RoseAnn DeMoro, writing in the San Francisco Chronicle
NNU Nurses Say “Ellison for DNC Chair†at Phoenix DNC Future Forum Saturday
On Saturday, January 14, registered nurses with National Nurses United (NNU) will converge in Phoenix, Arizona to show their support for Keith Ellison for chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Ellison we be taking part in the DNC Future Forum—featuring candidates for DNC chair and other offices.
National Nurses United
Jan 13, 2017
Nurses Join "Our First Stand: Save Health Care" National Day of Action Jan. 15th
Registered nurses will join actions in over 40 U.S. cities Jan. 15th to demand that the new administration and Congress protect and expand millions of Americans access to healthcare, not cut it.
National Nurses United
National Nurses Call Out 13 Democrats on Rx Vote: Whose Side Are You On? Big Pharma or Patients?
National Nurses United today sharply criticized 13 Senate Democrats who defeated an amendment that would have aided tens of millions of patients struggling with skyrocketing prescription drug costs, voting instead Tuesday night to ally with the pharmaceutical industry.
National Nurses United
Jan 12, 2017
Nurses Urge Senate To Reject Tom Price Health & Human Services Nominee
National Nurses United (the nations largest organization of nurses with over 190,000 members) called on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, as well as the full Senate, to reject the nomination of Rep. Tom Price as Secretary of Health and Human Services. RN and Co-President of National Nurses United Jean Ross joins us this week.
Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio
Big News: NNU Nurses’ Petition Granted for National Standard to Prevent Workplace Violence
Kicked in the chest by a combative patient. Choked with her own stethoscope. Left to fend for himself when a visitor arrived at the hospital with a gun. These are some of the personal experiences shared today by NNU nurses from around the country at the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) stakeholder meeting in Washington, D.C. on workplace violence in healthcare settings.
National Nurses United