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  1. UKRNinUSA

    Country's with socialized medicine vs the USA (Personal Income Tax)

    UKRNinUSA replied to ACU_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I care about my country -that's why I voted for Obama. I didn't drink any kool-aid -I made an informed, educated choice. Way better than being told what to do/think by some talking head whose only...
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    Country's with socialized medicine vs the USA (Personal Income Tax)

    UKRNinUSA replied to ACU_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I am with you 100%. I am amazed at the GULLIBILITY of those that have succumbed to the BRAINWASHING of Republican Talking Heads/Big Insurance/Big Pharma and continue to support ideas that are totally...
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    Health reform would be expensive. So would no health reform.

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

    even Republicans are starting to agree that we can't afford not to reform healthcare: From "Republicans for Single-Payer" website: "Universal Healthcare with Informed Choice Reforming Healthcare –...
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    How do you think Obama's plans for health insurance will affect nursing salaries?

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

    Medicare funding is set to run out by 2019. What are mum and dad, granny and grandpa to do then? Buy private health insurance?(you know that either they will be refused coverage or will be unable to...
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    Poll: On Health Care, Public Trusts Insurance Companies More Than Republicans

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

    I disagree crna2007. the joke's on us -private insurers are laughing all the way to the bank as republican talking heads do their bidding - bamboozling and brainwashing Joe/Joan Public into believing...
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    Health insurers refuse to limit rescission of coverage

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

    If we maintain the current mix of private/public insurance (altho personally I'm for single payer) I think that private insurers should be required to be not-for-profit as in Germany and Japan....
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    Media Blackout on Single-Payer Healthcare?

    UKRNinUSA replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I just got an email from CNA: "CNA/NNOC co-president Geri Jenkins, RN, Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro, Dr. David Himmelstein, PNHP president Dr. Oliver Fein, and Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor...
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    Did you watch "Reforming Healthcare on Bill Moyers Journal"?

    UKRNinUSA replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Great show and I felt very proud to be a CNA
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    Obama's Health Care plan. Is it a stepping stone to H.R 676, or a road to nowhere?

    UKRNinUSA replied to GCTMT's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Better to be an educated, informed, socialist hippie with empathy for the common man's plight than a victim of brainwashing by greedy fatcats intent on furthering their personal agenda of acquiring as...
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    Obama's Health Care plan. Is it a stepping stone to H.R 676, or a road to nowhere?

    UKRNinUSA replied to GCTMT's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I suspect that Obama's healthcare plan is a stepping stone to HR 676. I believe he is subscribing to the "let the market decide" principal (however we now hear the insurance companies whining "but how...
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    Interesting article on Obama health care plan

    UKRNinUSA replied to Future-nurse's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Since Medicare is going to be insolvent by 2020, and health care inequities of our current system are well documented,I would beg to differ that our healthcare system is NOT broken. No wonder Medicare...
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    How can the profit driven , private insurance funded healthcare system be fixed ?

    UKRNinUSA replied to nicurn001's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    the only way to fix it is to make it NOT FOR PROFIT -Switzerland does it - the private insurance companies (required to be not for profit) compete against each other in terms of quality: "Swiss...
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    PBS program on healthcare systems.

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

    I really liked the Taiwanese "smart card" - basically their health care record on a card that could be instantly acessed. I was also impressed by their instant electronic billing/payment system which...
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    Demand a Healthcare Reform Referendum!

    UKRNinUSA posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    It has been many moons since my last posting- some of you may remember that I am a strong advocate for universal healthcare. But I am so done with the right versus left health care debate - I just...
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    Demand a Healthcare Reform Referendum!

    UKRNinUSA replied to UKRNinUSA's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    So we agree! Let's do it. Lets demand a referendum on healthcare reform. (check out the frontline show -there is another thread on
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    Cure for whiny negative nurses - PET PEEVE game. Always read first post before entry.

    UKRNinUSA posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    I could whine and complain about how these negative nurses are extremely depressing and ruining nursing for those of us that actually enjoy our jobs. :smackingf Or I could think of a NEW GAME!...
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    Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    UKRNinUSA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    if we had national healthcare the money pot would be larger, these types of healthcare programs wouldn't be so underfunded, and the drugs wouldn't cost the consumer so much because we would have the...
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    Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    UKRNinUSA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Another example of people enjoying the benefits of the "freedom of choice" health care system: "More than 350 poor people infected with H.I.V. are on a waiting list for free life-saving drugs in...
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    Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    UKRNinUSA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I'm just wondering how the guy that threw his terminally ill wife over the balcony because she didn't have insurance and he couldn't afford to pay for her medical care any longer is enjoying his...
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    Poverty to Prosperity......

    UKRNinUSA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I totally agree with you -and I'm a bleeding heart liberal, not a mean old
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    National Health Care, Your Thoughts

    UKRNinUSA replied to Medic15251's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I like this idea but how does it translate into the hospital/healthcare facility setting when you need more care for a more serious illness? A friend's mother recently received a $38,000 bill for a 6...
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    Working for single payer healthcare?

    UKRNinUSA replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I'm going to the rally at Los Angeles City Hall this Saturday
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    Senate OKs wider kids' health program

    UKRNinUSA replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    "But denying basic health care to children whose parents lack the means to pay for it, simply because you're afraid that success in insuring children might put big government in a good light, is just...
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    The "death smell"

    UKRNinUSA replied to flobbadob's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting fact -a cat's sense of smell is 14 times stronger than a
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    National Health Care, Your Thoughts

    UKRNinUSA replied to Medic15251's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    "I am personally against a national health care plan. I feel like it is putting too much power in the hands of government. It will lead the way to America becoming a socialist country." The threat of...