The Big Red Bus Stopped in San Jose
We need single payer health care now! The single payer plan is also called Medicare for All. The Raging Grannies came out in support of the California Nurses Association, saying the best change would be to a system that takes care of everyone in America's health needs.
indybay.org
Health care for all; California Nurses Association tour makes stop in Santa Cruz
Volunteer nurses, dressed in red medical outfits matching the color of the tour's coach, were distributing fliers downtown, inviting people to get a free blood pressure screening and a blood sugar test. Santa Cruz was the 12th stop on the California Nurses Association Tour.
Silicon Valley Mercury News
CA Nurses Healthcare Tour in San Luis Obispo Friday With Screenings and Town Hall
Local stats show dire need for healthcare overhaul—20.1% of adults uninsured, 8.7% of adults unable to see a doctor due to cost
CNA Press Release
Jul 5, 2012
CA Nurses Healthcare Tour in Santa Cruz Thursday With Screenings and Town Hall
Local stats show dire need for healthcare overhaul—21.3% of adults uninsured, 13% of adults unable to see a doctor due to cost
Jul 5, 2012
What You Did for the Least of These, California, You Do for Us All
Notes from the road in California: I’ve been on the National Nurses United Medicare for All for life bus tour since mid-June, with one break to travel to Philadelphia for the SiCKO 5th reunion. So first let me admit I have a bit of “bus brain†going on. It’s a condition that goes along with being on an advocacy tour, without the restorative comforts of home. Today we head for Santa Cruz. Join us!
Donna Smith
CA Nurses Healthcare Tour in San Francisco Wednesday, in the Post Court Era
Local stats show dire need for healthcare overhaul—16.4% of adults uninsured, 11% of adults unable to see a doctor due to cost
Jul 3, 2012
Hospital deal in danger as papers suggest breaches
Mayor Ed Lee's deal with California Pacific Medical Center on a $2.5 billion overhaul of its San Francisco medical facilities is in jeopardy after internal financial documents were leaked showing hospital officials considered cutting hundreds of jobs, paying substantially less in charity care than envisioned in the deal, and could close a hospital despite pledging to keep it open.
San Francisco Chronicle
3,500 Bay Area Sutter Nurses to Strike Tuesday
Registered nurses at seven Alameda and San Mateo county hospitals operated by the Sutter corporation will begin a one-day strike Tuesday morning, once again protesting a long list of concession demands that they say would undermine patient care protections as well as health and living standards for the RNs. The strike will affect 3,500 RNs and also several hundred respiratory, X-ray, and other technicians.
Jul 2, 2012
CA Nurses Healthcare Tour in Oakland Tuesday with Screenings and Town Hall, in the Post Court Era
Local stats show dire need for healthcare overhaul—17.6% of adults uninsured, 17% of adults unable to see a doctor due to cost
Jun 29, 2012
