pickledpepperRN

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   UCLA New Grad Program

   pickledpepperRN replied to Katie612's topic in California

   I've worked registry at UCLA. I think it is a good hospital. But some units provide more complete orientation than others. I would ask about orientation for sure.
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   Mandatory Health insurance? Is it a solution to health care?

   pickledpepperRN replied to Faery1's topic in Activism

   Under HR 676, a family of three making $40,000 per year would spend approximately $1600 per year for health care coverage. It would be a payroll deduction like medicare. Or payable similar to income tax for thosewhose income is from investments. All...
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   Socialized/Universal/Single Payer/Government Funded Health care....why?

   pickledpepperRN replied to MBANurse's topic in Activism

   I don't think any presidential candidate has a workable solution. I also think we must have a healthcare system for Americans. We do not have one now.
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   A heartfelt patient's (and future nurse's?) view on healthcare in the US

   pickledpepperRN replied to EnduringFaith's topic in Activism

   I did two weeks registry staff relief in ICU at a Navr hospital. Although the system was very different I was impressed with the high quality and considerate care. The charge nurse anticipated my questions and explained so much to me in a very short ...
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   Europe healthier than U.S.

   pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism

   My friend was denied payment for a mammogram because she was under 50. Her mother and aunt had died from breast cancer and her sister a surviver. She paid for hers. Her insurance did pay for the needle biopsy, surgery, and continuing treatment. She ...
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   Take a deep breath, and read

   pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism

   Rally against medical insurers cites Frankfort man's plight January 16, 2008 By William Lee, Staff writer Using the Rev. Martin Luther King's fight for equality as a jumping-off point on what would've been his 79th birthday, members of a nurses' un...
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   Health Reform is the Most Important Domestic Policy Issue

   pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism

   Obama-Clinton health debate ignores real issue Tuesday, January 15, 2008 THE DEBATE BETWEEN Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on health care probably looks like a small nuance in two proposals that are remarkably similar. But the issue at the...
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   Medicare For All H.R. 676

   pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism

   ■ National healthcare expenditures-$2 trillion (2005). Healthcare is 16% of the GDP (2005), expected to rise to 20% by 2015 (Modern Healthcare, Dec. 18, 2006). Healthcare costs doubled from 1993 to 2004, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medi...
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   Medicare For All H.R. 676

   pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism

   If so why not figure out how to do so efficiently? Safe, effective, therapeutic health care for everyone?
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    Making Room at America's Inn for All God's Children

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism

    A friends father taught high school math on a Southern California reservation (without a casino). She was one of his students and is now a nurse. His humorous remark when the subject of immigration comes up, "If those Indians don't like it here; why ...
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    A heartfelt patient's (and future nurse's?) view on healthcare in the US

    pickledpepperRN replied to EnduringFaith's topic in Activism

    I am also glad to pay taxes for the original posters surgeries. Now Enduringfaith is a nursing student. I hope for a healthy and useful life for all. And nursing students have a special place in my heart. God bless you all.
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    A heartfelt patient's (and future nurse's?) view on healthcare in the US

    pickledpepperRN replied to EnduringFaith's topic in Activism

    Military healthcare and the Veterans Administration hospitals and clinics are government run. I am very happy to pay taxes to provide healthcare for soldiers and their families. It needs to be expanded and improved.
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    Ohio Nurses Speak Out

    pickledpepperRN replied to RN Power Ohio's topic in Activism

    Ohio hospitals already can staff safely. They don't need a new smokescreen law to do so. Staffing needs to be by acuity of which the ratio is the minimum.
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    Medicare For All H.R. 676

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism

    It happened to me here in the US. I was insured. If I'd gone to the ER instead of my primary gatekeeper I would have been X-rayed that day. Maybe after a painful wait in the ER. As it happened I had months of painful waiting, thanks to PacifiCare.
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    Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism

    A nurse was on O'Reilly to talk about single payer healthcare: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCQojqCpD8w&feature=related