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  1. National Day of protest Against Insurance Corps

    Ludlow posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The private insurance corporations have had a heavy hand in producing the dysfunction of our current health care system. Their greed has become so distasteful and so disgusting to us that any sane...

  2. National Day of protest Against Insurance Corps

    Ludlow replied to Ludlow's topic in Activism, Healthcare

  3. National Day of protest Against Insurance Corps

    Ludlow replied to Ludlow's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Sorry, kjetski, ad hominem attacks (you said: '250k Americans die each year of alcohol related illness. About the same number die from smoking and cardiac events. Where is your concern for them? Oh...

  4. National Day of protest Against Insurance Corps

    Ludlow replied to Ludlow's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Here's the latest report card on how our system is doing---dead last, though most expensive. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/bu...tml?ref=health It was the Institutes of Medicine that in 2004...

  5. National Day of protest Against Insurance Corps

    Ludlow replied to Ludlow's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Do you know that 70 people died today---TODAY! because they did not have insurance and did not have access to health care. 70 Americans die every day simply because they do not have access to care....

  6. Reasons Why YOU Won't Join A Union

    Ludlow replied to SBinGA's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Yikes! I am sorry your employer is so dumb. Go to the NNOC site and see if you'd like to join up with

  7. Reasons Why YOU Won't Join A Union

    Ludlow replied to SBinGA's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Give CNA/NNOC a call. You too can join the movement that is protecting and empowering nurses and bringing health care justice to the US.

  8. Reasons Why YOU Won't Join A Union

    Ludlow replied to SBinGA's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I've worked at union and non-union hospitals. The character of the nurses and their work ethics were the same at both. I just appreciate that at the union hospital, my rights are protected. I don't...

  9. National Day of protest Against Insurance Corps

    Ludlow replied to Ludlow's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    There's an ad made by the Courage Campaign and the California Nurses Association that highlights the human problems caused by private insurance company greed. Beth Broderick (from "Lost") explains in...

  10. National Day of protest Against Insurance Corps

    Ludlow replied to Ludlow's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Granted there are multiple factors for why our health care system is not about care and is hardly a system. But the biggest factor of them all, wasting/ taking out of the system 1/3 of the dollars...

  11. National Day of protest Against Insurance Corps

    Ludlow replied to Ludlow's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Here's a link that lists the other cities that will be holding protests on June 19th, in case you can't get to San Francisco:

  12. To Unionize or Not To Unionize: Questions that every nurse should ask themselves

    Ludlow replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Au CONTRAIRE!!! Get ready to stand together for the benefit of your patients and your profession. Get ready for manageable care assignments. Get ready for being able to ACTUALLY take your...

  13. To Unionize or Not To Unionize: Questions that every nurse should ask themselves

    Ludlow replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Where did you work as the HR director? I'm glad you're thinking union protection is valuable and you are so right. We live in a world that sees the patient as a dollar sign. RNs have a moral, ethical...

  14. Reasons Why YOU Won't Join A Union

    Ludlow replied to SBinGA's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    CNA looks at the policies of the various politicians. If they support nurses and patients' rights we support them. They are not always

  15. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Ludlow replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I would love to see that amendment. Where did you hear about it? 'Nurse not RN' was certainly the argument put forth by the hospital association and entities like SEIU, but it lost out in court to the...

  16. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Ludlow replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Check out this article about Suzanne Gordon's latest book. She and co-authors in Australia chronicle the benefits that have come to California and Victoria, Australia since the implementation of ratio...

  17. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Ludlow replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Be sure to check out the adjudicated clarification to the Ratios law. It was upheld in court that 'nurse' meant 'RN' when it came to pt-to-nurse ratio (because the nurse had to 'assess' the patient in...

  18. To Unionize or Not To Unionize: Questions that every nurse should ask themselves

    Ludlow replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I always thought that nurses who got promoted (and I'm not really sure it's a promotion) to manager somehow had to have a lobotomy as part of their management orientation. They seem to totally forget...

  19. To Unionize or Not To Unionize: Questions that every nurse should ask themselves

    Ludlow replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Herring RN WOW! Thanks for all that info! It should be pointed out that the things Medicare wants to NOT reimburse for like hospital acquired decubiti are things that reduce with improved RN to...

  20. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Ludlow replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Here's a great site to go to for research about the differences:

  21. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Ludlow replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I guess you can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink. I imagine Scripps made bargaining hard. If the nurses were not united, that made it easier for the administration to be punitive in...

  22. PBS program on healthcare systems.

    Ludlow replied to Chico David's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I'd love it if we could get away from thinking we need health insurance. What we need is universal health CARE. Insurance just gets us side-tracted. Oh to be like the rest of the civilized world....

  23. Been getting calls from SEIU?

    Ludlow replied to RedZeppelinRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Actually what happened in Ohio was that RNs spoke with RNs telling them that it is possible to have contracts that allow you to be able to fully advocate for your patients. Most recent SEIU contracts...

  24. To Unionize or Not To Unionize: Questions that every nurse should ask themselves

    Ludlow replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    You make some good points. I would like to point out that the insurance industry keeps 30% of our health care dollars without providing any health care. That's billions of dollars that could come back...

  25. University of California RN win historic CNA contract

    Ludlow posted a topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Registered nurses at the 5 campus hospitals of the University of California belonging to the California Nurses Association agreed to an historic contract this March that included: *Protection of our...