bigreddog1934

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1. Largest Nurses Strike in US History - Replacement Nurses Arrive - Your opinion

   bigreddog1934 replied to girlvet's topic in Union

   yes, of course the global derivatives scheme, the utter deregulation of white collar crimes on an international scale that required trillions of dollars worldwide had nothing to do with this. yes capitalism has always had it under control and anyone ...

2. Is healthcare a right or privilege?

   bigreddog1934 replied to Treat et Street's topic in Activism

   The only rights we get depend on who is in power and who power represents. All sort of documents and publications come out in every country exclaiming rights that represent nothing other that the political forces at work. Because the framers of the c...

3. A tear shed for nationalized medicine.

   bigreddog1934 replied to SilentMind's topic in Activism

   of course, that is except for the military and the two ongoing wars. oh, and prisons.

4. Health Care is a right

   bigreddog1934 replied to headsup's topic in Activism

   i find that the people on this discussion that claim not to understand the dire need for universal health care are incredibly lazy with their research. it requires all of us advocating some form of guaranteed health care to do the grunt work for them...

5. Health Care is a right

   bigreddog1934 replied to headsup's topic in Activism

   I dont think the constitution guaranteed women's suffrage, an end to slavery, workplace safety protections, oversight into how safe our food is, an end to child labor, social security, or the ability to vote by men who did not own land, but i dont th...

6. Health Care is a right

   bigreddog1934 replied to headsup's topic in Activism

   You have to be kidding me. Have you read a page of US history? The entire reason that we have any standards of living at all is because there were labor struggles that nearly consumed the country - certainly not because the clever people rose to the ...

7. Healthcare-NOW! 2009 National Strategy Conference

   bigreddog1934 replied to bigreddog1934's topic in Activism

   Yes, K98. At this point would you like me to do your research for you, or would you actually like to look outside of your personal experience and perceptions for information. Either one is fine with me. We can consider it a mutual exploration into US...

8. Healthcare-NOW! 2009 National Strategy Conference

   bigreddog1934 replied to bigreddog1934's topic in Activism

   "On the issue that has been perhaps the most pronounced flash point in the national debate, 57 percent of all Americans now favor a public insurance option, while 40 percent oppose it." - Washington Post-ABC News poll, October 20, 2009 Once again, K9...

9. Health Care is a right

   bigreddog1934 replied to headsup's topic in Activism

   Lack of funding has wrecked public education, K98, which is why public education in the richest communities is among the best in the world, and why people like yourself use the poorest and most underfunded schools to illustrate a generalization.

10. Healthcare-NOW! 2009 National Strategy Conference

    bigreddog1934 replied to bigreddog1934's topic in Activism

    Where are you from GCTMT? I am north of Denver and helping to plan the civil disobedience action at an insurance company to be announced. This is just the start. It our civil rights movement and RNs should be at the front of the entire cause for univ...

11. Health Care is a right

    bigreddog1934 replied to headsup's topic in Activism

    I entire agree onekidney. The last hospital that I worked at was a "not for profit" where the CEO was making over $1.2 million dollars. Just because its called that does not mean that a section of people working there aren't bringing home far far mor...

12. Health Care is a right

    bigreddog1934 replied to headsup's topic in Activism

    These are the results of a New England Journal of Medicine Study. Results In 1999, health administration costs totaled at least $294.3 billion in the United States, or $1,059 per capita, as compared with $307 per capita in Canada. After exclusions, ...

13. Healthcare-NOW! 2009 National Strategy Conference

    bigreddog1934 posted a topic in Activism

    I am headed to this in November. It is the most important patient advocacy of our times. Healthcare-NOW! is the coalition that has been staging sit - ins at insurance companies around the country. Our position is that profit needs to be taken out of...

14. RN experience prior to ER triage?

    bigreddog1934 replied to RNBelle's topic in Emergency

    In my last job it was about two years before they started inching you into triage. Then you would be part of two nurses for a bit until you were the sole triage RN. There was also a class on triage you took before heading out there.

15. 4 month old baby denied insurance coverage for being obese

    bigreddog1934 replied to lovepink's topic in Activism

    why pick on this little guy? there are plenty of overweight senators that do not favor public health care that we could throw throw to the curb. i think a few fox news commentators would fit this description as well...