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    I want to know what nurses think about socialized medicine.

    HM2VikingRN replied to ratchet41's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Equating access to effective and affordable health care as welfare just doesn't connect logically. Insurance by definition is a social product. We collectively pay into a risk pool to cover the risks...
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    I want to know what nurses think about socialized medicine.

    HM2VikingRN replied to ratchet41's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I think that I would trust the work of the Commonwealth Fund for accurate information about UHC over the work of John
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    I want to know what nurses think about socialized medicine.

    HM2VikingRN replied to ratchet41's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    "as societal circumstances have changed..." He also founded the University of Virginia.. My point is that he was an experimenter and believed in the ability of people to modify their government in...
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    I want to know what nurses think about socialized medicine.

    HM2VikingRN replied to ratchet41's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    your basic innate recognition of a human right to healthcare would be the compassion of healing and care-giving, not robbing from me and giving to others who have had the chance to prosper and pull...
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    I want to know what nurses think about socialized medicine.

    HM2VikingRN replied to ratchet41's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Jefferson actually supported publicly funded health care for merchant mariners....Its not much of a leap to extend that support as societal circumstances have changed to support for a form of public...
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    Last name on badges?

    HM2VikingRN replied to BroncoSmoLVN's topic in General Nursing

    First name last init on front with title. Full name on back which i whited out. On psych it just makes sense to cover the name. (Our VAMC police chief hates the name
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    Question: Why don't hospitals color code the scrubs?

    HM2VikingRN replied to DolceVita's topic in General Nursing

    No white...I look like the Michelin Man... Navy Blue and a NAME TAG does the
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    I want to know what nurses think about socialized medicine.

    HM2VikingRN replied to ratchet41's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The Second Bill of Rights:
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    I want to know what nurses think about socialized medicine.

    HM2VikingRN replied to ratchet41's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    We do owe something to each other as members of a society. One of the things that strikes me is that there have been signs of care-giving and healing found in most of the oldest excavations of our...
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    I want to know what nurses think about socialized medicine.

    HM2VikingRN replied to ratchet41's topic in Activism, Healthcare

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    GOP releases healthcare plan; actual plan not included

    HM2VikingRN replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I would add "other" Americans. If they are a legal immigrant they are pursuing full membership in our
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    Private insurance, most efficient , cost effective funding of Healthcare ?

    HM2VikingRN replied to nicurn001's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The data says otherwise: http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_health_of_nations The VA isn't perfect but nothing created by man can ever be perfected. (Full disclosure I work for a VAMC). My...
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    I want to know what nurses think about socialized medicine.

    HM2VikingRN replied to ratchet41's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    saarein, i certainly did not attack you in any way shape or form. i appreciate your concerns and ideas and my responses are usually driven by data and research....
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    Obama's health plan takes shape

    HM2VikingRN replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/06/21/health/policy/0620POLL.jpg
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    Obama's health plan takes shape

    HM2VikingRN replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    In Poll, Wide Support for Government-Run
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    Insurance Executive Admits To Killing Patients

    HM2VikingRN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Evil is as evil
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    GOP releases healthcare plan; actual plan not included

    HM2VikingRN replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    the commonwealth fund has a new report out about the un/underinsured: (its a lot closer to 100 million than 10 million.)...
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    I want to know what nurses think about socialized medicine.

    HM2VikingRN replied to ratchet41's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    how is it that everyone is paying? there are people who do not work and pay taxes. the un/underinsured are paying into the system. poverty and income statistics are a slippery slope that aren't...
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    I want to know what nurses think about socialized medicine.

    HM2VikingRN replied to ratchet41's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    If we fix health care finance we will fix medicare/medicaid. Administrative costs are an obscene drag on the system. We spend 25% of our dollars on administration with subpar results whilst Canada...
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    How do you think Obama's plans for health insurance will affect nursing salaries?

    HM2VikingRN replied to tejas-nurse's topic in Activism, Healthcare

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    How do you think Obama's plans for health insurance will affect nursing salaries?

    HM2VikingRN replied to tejas-nurse's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The real question is whether access to health care is a basic human right or a privilege. Our current rate of health care inflation is 16% heading for 20%. The privilege model is killing US...
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    Canada's healthcare saved her; Ours won't cover her

    HM2VikingRN replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    If we expand access to primary care we should achieve a reduction in ER usage. (Maybe an expansion of urgent care hours is part of the
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    Canada's healthcare saved her; Ours won't cover her

    HM2VikingRN replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    nurture: the sum of the environmental factors influencing the behavior and traits expressed by an organism Think about the etymology of the word and how it applies to our profession. Establishing an...
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    Canada's healthcare saved her; Ours won't cover her

    HM2VikingRN replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Actually there are studies that show that requiring patients to use primary care physicians as gatekeepers to specialty care yields better results. IOW you have to see a primary care provider before...
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    Canada's healthcare saved her; Ours won't cover her

    HM2VikingRN replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    How you describe others influences their behaviors. If you call someone a deadbeat those are the behaviors that you are