On Saturday, February 11, registered nurses with National Nurses United (NNU) will converge in Baltimore to show their support for Keith Ellison for chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Ellison will be taking part in the DNC Future Forum—featuring candidates for DNC chair and other offices.
The nurses union, which has nearly 185,000 members, was the early-on-board engine of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign and led the drubbing of former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2005, when he tried to pass four statewide ballot initiatives.
We all know that the Affordable Care Act was a critically important step towards the goal of universal health care. But 29 million Americans today still do not have health insurance, and millions more are underinsured because health insurance companies are making our health care unaffordable and inaccessible.
