[pickledpepperRN]

Here is a family in Texas who held a rally yesterday:
http://www.protesthealthcare.org/index.htm

Tell us about what you are doing.

[UKRNinUSA]

I'm going to the rally at Los Angeles City Hall this Saturday

http://www.onecarenow.org/events/81107.htm

[NRSKarenRN]

ANA's efforts:re Setting Policy and Lobbying
voted by ANA House of Delegates
(representatives from all constituent associations)

2000: ANA action report endorsing single payer
Last year, the ANA House of Delegates voted to endorse single payer as the best means of financing our health care system. Below, we have reprinted the ...
www.massnurses.org/News/2000/000005/anasinglepay.htm


Health Coverage 2000 Proposal: Achieving Access for All Americans

Nursing's Agenda for Health Care Reform -- 2002

ANA's Health Care Agenda -- 2005

In 1989, the American Nurses Association (ANA) Board of Directors appointed the Task Force on Health Policy Support of Access, Quality and Cost Efficiency. This committee’s work, in collaboration with the broader nursing community, resulted in the publication of Nursing’s Agenda for Health Care Reform (ANA, 1991), a blueprint for reform that was endorsed by over 60 nursing and other health organizations. Nursing’s Agenda for Health Care Reform articulated the need for immediate health care reform by focusing on the basic "core" of essential health care services (Appendix 1) that must be available to everyone. The report called for a restructured health care system that focuses on the health needs of consumers with services delivered in familiar, convenient sites, such as schools, workplaces, and homes. The report also called for a shift from an illness orientation toward one of wellness and prevention., and it spoke to the need to "use health resources effectively and efficiently by balancing efforts to promote health with the capacity to cure disease."

Despite 15 years of incremental, market-based approaches to reform, the health care system continues to be fragmented and costly. While some individuals have access to a sophisticated system of care, for many others this same system is characterized by high costs, inconsistent quality and an unequal distribution of services. ANA remains committed to the principle that all persons are entitled to ready access to affordable, quality health care services.

Nursing, as the pivotal health care profession, is well positioned to advocate on behalf of and in concert with individuals, families and communities who are in desperate need of a well financed, functional and coordinated health care system that provides safe, quality care. Indeed, all of us stand to benefit from such a system. Accessible, affordable, and quality health care will positively contribute to our individual health, the strength of society, our national well-being, and overall productivity.

Citizens’ Health Care Working Group

The Congress has created a national forum to elicit citizens’ thoughts about how we should reform America’s health care system. And the voices of nurses need to be heard! More...

• ANA's letter to the Citizens' Health Care Working Group
• ANA's detailed comments on the Interim Recommendations of the Citizens' Health Care Working Group

Read the side-by-side comparison of these recommendations and ANA’s parallel health system reform policy

[HM2Viking]

I just think it is a simple matter of social justice!

[pickledpepperRN]

Originally Posted by UKRNinUSA

I'm going to the rally at Los Angeles City Hall this Saturday

http://www.onecarenow.org/events/81107.htm

Angelenos Rally For Health

Thousands gathered at Los Angeles City Hall last Saturday to express their support for State Senator Sheila Kuehl’s California Universal Healthcare Act, SB 840.
The Los Angeles rally was the final event in the OneCareNow yearlong organizing campaign in support of SB 840.

Kuehl rallied the crowd by noting there are three things wrong with our healthcare system: “It doesn’t make you healthy, it doesn’t give you care, and it isn’t a system. In the California legislature there are 43 members who are co-authors of this bill. It would set the standard for healthcare in the country.”

Dr. Reed Johnson, who was representing the California Physicians’ Alliance, pointed out that “doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals know that our healthcare system is in crisis because we see human suffering every day. ...
http://www.smmirror.com/MainPages/Di...s.asp?eid=6087