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Nurses Launch Major Ohio Radio Ad Campaign Telling Candidates: Stop Selling Insurance and Back Real Reform

Activist Nurses Union to Run Ads in Heavy Rotation Through Primary

On the eve of Ohio’s crucial primary vote Tuesday, the National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association today launched a major radio campaign across Ohio with an emphatic message to the presidential candidates to stop selling private insurance policies and support real healthcare reform.

The 60-second radio ad is running in markets across the state, including Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Lima, Toledo, and Youngstown.

Criticizing “individual mandates” that require people to purchase insurance—a major focus of the debate on healthcare among the Democratic presidential candidates— the nurses say that mandating private insurance is not “universal healthcare,” especially while the insurance giants “can still charge as much as they want and still deny you care when you are sick.”

The role of government, the nurses’ ad says, should be to “protect us from insurance companies, not force us to buy insurance products.”

Nurses know the problem with insurance-based care, the ad notes. They regularly “witness lives lost, care denied, families ruined by big insurance corporations. Nurses know there is only one real cure for our broken health care system. We ask the candidates to commit to the highest standard of quality care through Medicare for all Americans. That’s the real reform that puts decision-making power where it belongs – with you, your nurses, and your doctors.”...

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"NNOC/CNA has been in the forefront of the campaign to transform the nation's broken healthcare system to a guaranteed healthcare program as exists in other industrialized nations...."

and here is how they have been campaigning to "transform" healthcare the last few years::yeah:

2008 -unionbusting and leafleting "Vote NO for a Choice" at 9 Ohio hospitals:up:

2007 -Fighting against a kill a bi-partisan plan in California to provide affordable healthcare to Californians:confused: and guarantee coverage for children in California broke from organized labor and opposed the Democratic health care plan advanced in Sacramento

2005 -leading a raid of Cook County hospital where RNs were part of the Illinois Nurses Association. Cook County Nurses worked without a contract from December 04 to June 06 and then ended up with practically the same contract they started with. :twocents: i hear they were also forced to pay dues during this process.

2004 - CNA driven hostile takeover of Hawaiian Nurses Association fails - nurses vote overwhelmingly to remain affiliated with the ANA.:loveya:

-In December NNOC cancels vote at St. Joseph's in Phoenix, AZ because they can't win an election. In fact, NNOC has been in Arizona for 4 years now and because SEIU and ANA aren't around to bash and accuse of things there is no victory in sight :argue:

- CNA joins same "backroom" deal in Tenet they accused SEIU of neogiating and get access to the standards SEIU members set and won:banghead:

2003 - CNA ends the longest nurse strike in history at Tenet Pinole after 15 months. then they sue to get in on SEIU "backroom" deal with Tenet

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"NNOC/CNA has been in the forefront of the campaign to transform the nation's broken healthcare system to a guaranteed healthcare program as exists in other industrialized nations...."

and here is how they have been campaigning to "transform" healthcare the last few years::yeah:

2008 -unionbusting and leafleting "Vote NO for a Choice" at 9 Ohio hospitals:up:

2007 -Fighting against a kill a bi-partisan plan in California to provide affordable healthcare to Californians:confused: and guarantee coverage for children in California broke from organized labor and opposed the Democratic health care plan advanced in Sacramento

2005 -leading a raid of Cook County hospital where RNs were part of the Illinois Nurses Association. Cook County Nurses worked without a contract from December 04 to June 06 and then ended up with practically the same contract they started with. :twocents: i hear they were also forced to pay dues during this process.

2004 - CNA driven hostile takeover of Hawaiian Nurses Association fails - nurses vote overwhelmingly to remain affiliated with the ANA.:loveya:

-In December NNOC cancels vote at St. Joseph's in Phoenix, AZ because they can't win an election. In fact, NNOC has been in Arizona for 4 years now and because SEIU and ANA aren't around to bash and accuse of things there is no victory in sight :argue:

- CNA joins same "backroom" deal in Tenet they accused SEIU of neogiating and get access to the standards SEIU members set and won:banghead:

2003 - CNA ends the longest nurse strike in history at Tenet Pinole after 15 months. then they sue to get in on SEIU "backroom" deal with Tenet

Thanks RN Advocate for this informative summary of CNA union-busting over the past decade. Whose payroll are they on???

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