Nurses and the 2008 election

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A recent study led by professor Peter Buerhaus polled registered nurses about two timely issues -- the state of health care and the importance of the issue in the upcoming election.

With a close election expected, the country's three million registered nurses could make a difference in the election, Buerhaus says.

Most nurses interviewed support some form of universal health care coverage, although opinions vary on just how extensive coverage should be.

Very few approve of the country's health care system as it stands now, the survey shows.

...Slightly more than half, or 51 percent, believe that if all nurses could join together to address one health problem, it would be the number of uninsured Americans.

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okay? I was responding to the original post and I said nothing of a political nature. That said, it's kinda hard to have an intelligent exchange on an article which discusses the influence of politics on health care and not discuss politics and policy reform in the process.

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

Think Brian was making a general statement toward all in the thread, not specifically directed toward you, sher1206. :) It just happened to come after yours is all.

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BRIAN, please contact me on private message.

I am an Italy Nurse. I would send a message to you, but I don't know how.

::wink2::wink2::wink2:

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i don't know the answer to this but it is interesting to hear different opioions

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Specializes in Trauma.

Obama/Biden:)

Healthcare must change and we must not only be a voice for our patients in the hospital, but also politically. I believe the dem ticket is the only way to get anything done with healthcare.

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I am Italian. An Italian Nurse.

Have you ever been in Italy? I am waiting for you :-)

Italian Politic in healthcare is very, very different from USA.

Here each person could go in an Hospital and ask to be cured; People without documents too.

Withouth documents means: illegal person, also sayd: invisible persons.

What do you think about this?

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Do you really think politicians are going to listen to nurses...we can't agree on one thing as a group..not even on who we are and what entry level. The politicians are just catering to the huge number of us..trying to make us feel important. The politicians are the ones that help create this huge debacle in health care along with the insurance companies, they are the ones that control it to their best interest and we (nurses, doctors and patients, hospitals) are held hostage to them.

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and we (nurses, doctors and patients, hospitals) are held hostage to them.

I am agree with you.

I have never been in USA.

I live in Italy, and I watch tv: all american's misdoing about health care.

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Specializes in ER-Med-Surg-Travel/Contract Nurse.

do you realize, that in France, if you have a baby they will pay you for a year out of work....we are so overworked...do you realize that most of the people that are uninsured are like you or I, middle class citizens, I do because they are forced to come to the ER for routine care, because very fews doctor will take an uninsured pt..it's very sad, and needs to fixed

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they pay you for being out of work [ just who do you think 'THEY' are??

this is tax money, it is fun and happy dance if you are one the receiving end..if you are trying to put food on the table it is a nightmare

0--btw..american tv and american health care has nothing in common

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Specializes in ER-Med-Surg-Travel/Contract Nurse.

We already are paying for it, and OBTW, I LIVE in the real world and deal with real people who are forced to choose between eating and filling their blood pressure medicine, who are living paycheck to paycheck and one little illness sends them over the edge...I've been there and empathize

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Specializes in Critical care, tele, Medical-Surgical.
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I am Italian. An Italian Nurse.

Have you ever been in Italy? I am waiting for you :-)

Italian Politic in healthcare is very, very different from USA.

Here each person could go in an Hospital and ask to be cured; People without documents too.

Withouth documents means: illegal person, also sayd: invisible persons.

What do you think about this?

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In 1978 my mother died in a hospital in Rome.

She had lost her sight and regained it in one eye. She wanted to see the Vatican and art in Italy. She sent cards and gifts to hundreds of people on that trip.

She had chest pain. An orthopedic ambulance rushed my father and her to Rome.

She seemed OK. Pain relieved. Priest had visited.

My Dad was going to return home and go back to work. A nurse who could speak some English explained to him how sick she was.

(Mom was type I diabetes with eye, kidney, and cardiac complications. Her first episode on CHF happened 23 years earlier.)

My Dad stayed with her. Nurses helped him and her so much. I was trying to get an emergency passport and travl plans when my grandma, her mother, called to tell me she had died.

She put herself on a bedpan and sent my Dad out of the room. A nurse came and found him. That nurse helped him make phone calls, deal with international paperwork, and her kindness smoothed everything at the worst time in his life.

I am eternally grateful for my sisters in nursing who were with my Mommy when I couldn't be.

My Dad never got a bill.

He got a sympathy card signed by hospital and ambulance people.

He did weeks later try to pay and was referred to donations he could make.

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