Gov. Peter Shumlin: The man who'd bring single-payer health care to Vermont
Peter Shumlin, the newly elected governor of Vermont, has a plan for health-care reform: Rather than repeal it, he wants to supercharge it. His state will set up an exchange, and then, as soon as possible, apply for a waiver that allows it to turn the program into a single-payer system.
Washington Post
Lauren Aichele, RN, Helps Haiti Earthquake Victims
February 2, 2010 was the beginning of what would be the most exciting and rewarding experience that I have ever been involved in.
RNRN Blog
New Pact Approved for 17,000 Kaiser California RNs
Thousands of registered nurses and nurse practitioners at more than 60 hospitals and medical offices in Northern and Central California have voted nearly unanimously to approve a new three-year contract with Kaiser Permanente, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United announced today.
Press Release
Feb 9, 2011
Executives Who Get Paid Millions To Deny You Health Care Coverage
The business model of American health insurers is basically: try to get healthy customers as clients, and then resist as long as possible when it comes to paying out claims. That’s actually not an indictment or a criticism. It’s just the way our system works, and it’s screwed up.
wallstcheatsheet.com
Student nurses set for protest
Ireland - Student nurses and midwives are to press ahead with lunchtime protests over Government plans to cut their pay as industrial trouble-shooters hear their case.
Irish Times
Nurse protest prompts Blue Shield to delay rate hike
Blue Shield of California today announced a 60-day reprieve in an unconscionable rate hike of up to 59 percent it intends to foist on individuals and families. The announcement coincided with announced plans by nurses, patients, and consumer advocates who stormed Blue Shield's posh California corporate headquarters in downtown San Francisco.
National Nurses Movement
Nurse, Patients, Consumer Protest Prompts Blue Shield to Delay Massive Rate Hike
Blue Shield’s announcement today that it would agree to a short, 60-day delay in a gargantuan rate hike was the direct outcome of a protest in front of the insurance giant’s corporate offices in San Francisco, said the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United which called the protest.
Press Release
Feb 1, 2011
Protesters Take On Conservative Retreat
An invitation-only political retreat for rich conservatives, run out of the spotlight for years by a pair of Kansas billionaires, became a public rallying point for liberal outrage on Sunday, as 11 busloads of protesters converged on a resort in the Southern California desert.
New York Times
California Insurers Deny 26% of All Claims, State's 7 Largest Rejected 67.5 Million Since '02
Despite the passage of national healthcare reform and widespread uproar in California over insurance industry pricing practices and other abuses, California’s largest private insurance companies continue to deny more than one-fourth of all claims, according to new findings released today by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United.
Press Release
Jan 31, 2011
Patients and RNs to March on Blue Shield HQ to Protest Rate Hike Outrage
(SAN FRANCISCO) California patients hurt by Blue Shield’s efforts to sharply hike rates will join members of the California Nurses Association and local healthcare advocates at a major protest against Blue Shield’s actions.
Press Release
Jan 28, 2011