Originally Posted by RN Power Ohio
Hey Hey Ho Ho Insurance Greed Has Got To Go!!!
I can hear the voice of a thousand nurses across the nation still chanting.
Pass it on.
We must restore dignity to the patients of the US. There is no dignity in the United States as long as even one person is denied care because of insurance status.
Thousands, at least 85,000 CNA/NNOC members...and counting. The nation has approximately 2.3 Registered Nurses. Nurses are frequently the first contact point for the patient in the health care system. This means that they can witness the effects of human rights violations on individuals and the effects these have on families and communities.
We have a duty to ACT to change circumstances which are against the interests of patients who need care. The current market-based insurance industry is just such a circumstance. It needs to be eliminated and replaced with a socially responsible system of health care delivery: MediCare for All.
It just makes fiscal and administrative sense; a single payer system eliminates waste, and controls costs. One payer, the government, pays providers, (public or private), for medically necessary care. Businesses, employers, individuals will pay an equitable fair share, based on a transparent, publicly accountable system.
We pay once, instead of the multiple co-pays, premiums, and deductibles to hundreds of different insurers. We eliminate them and their greedy self-serving policy of delay, denial, exclusion, and recission.
That's why we support universal healthcare for all, based on the single-payer model. It's good public policy. Everybody in, nobody out!
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