Our Perspective: How Simplifying Financing Can Cut Costs in US Healthcare
A Simplified financing system in the U.S. could result in cost savings exceeding $350 billion annually, nearly 15% of health care spending
BMC Health Services Research
Our Perspective: "Wellness" Based Healthcare is a Scam
"Wellness" programs have long been oversold as a mechanism to improve health in the workplace, the alleged reason why they were encouraged in the Affordable Care Act. But NNU has long viewed them as scheme, heavily promoted by corporate employers, whose real purpose was to promote the growing practice of health coverage cost shifting from employers to workers, including nurses.
Reuters
A New Study Shows Why Obamacare Should Have Been Single-Payer
A single-payer system akin to the Medicare program or Canada's national healthcare. The study found that the $375 billion saved annually with a single-payer system could be used to cover all of the nation's uninsured and upgrade coverage for millions of under-insured citizens.
Sarah Kollmorgen, New Republic
As Top Democrats Embrace a Robin Hood Tax, It's Time for Activists to Go Big
Americans who are serious about addressing income inequality have long recognized that the United States needs a Robin Hood Tax – a charge on financial transactions proposed by campaigners who have argued since the Wall Street meltdown of 2008 that “banks, hedge funds and the rest of the financial sector should pay their fair share to clear up the mess they helped create.â€
John Nicholson, The Nation
Nurses Urge Legislation to Require Prevention Plans To Stem Epidemic of Violence in Hospitals
Registered Nurses will rally in Tampa Tuesday to call for legislative action to require hospitals to step up tough prevention plans to stem a growing spate of violence against nurses and other health workers in hospitals.
National Nurses Organizing Committee
Jan 12, 2015
Kaiser RNs Announce Plans to Strike January 21-22
After months of Kaiser Permanente’s refusal to address the growing erosion of patient care standards, Kaiser RNs will hold a two-day strike January 21 and 22, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United announced late today.
California Nurses Association
Jan 9, 2015
International Nurse News Round-Up
See a collection of links to news stories about nurses in other nations, and how they are advocating for their patients.
Global Nurses United
Fatal System Error
Private nonprofit hospitals, which benefit from huge tax breaks, fail to care for the East Bay's poorest residents — and now one public hospital is on the verge of collapse.
Sam Levin, East Bay Express
Nurses Rally Friday at Seton Medical Center – 12 pm
DALY CITY/MOSS BEACH— Nurses and community organizations are mobilizing once again Friday at Seton Medical Center (Daly City) and Seton Coastside (Moss Beach), for the fifth and final day of rallies and Attorney General public hearings in support of the proposed sale of six Daughters of Charity hospitals to Prime Healthcare.
California Nurses Association
Jan 9, 2015
Daly City – Nurse Rally, Friday, Noon, Seton Medical Center
DALY CITY/MOSS BEACH— Building on momentum gathered by hundreds of registered nurses who mobilized at Daughters of Charity hospitals earlier this week, nurses and community organizations are turning out again Friday at Seton Medical Center (Daly City) and Seton Coastside (Moss Beach). They will be gathering for the fifth day of rallies and Attorney General public hearings in support of the proposed sale of six Daughters of Charity hospitals to Prime Healthcare.
California Nurses Association
Jan 8, 2015