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  1. Mandatory Health insurance? Is it a solution to health care?

    pickledpepperRN replied to Faery1's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Family Of Nataline Sarkisyan, To Join Other Patients, California Nurses, Working Families, And Healthcare Activists In Testifying Against ABX1 1, USA. …A broad coalition of leading California unions...

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

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

    To me it is important for my children and family for nurses to work for us all to do better. For safe staffing, the right as well as the responsibility to advocate for the best interests of our...

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

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

    Per my seniority is measured by years of acute care experience as a registered nurse. Because I was an LVN here for several years before earning my RN nurses who were hired after me have more...

  4. Most stressful moment as a nurse: spouse on vent + decision making

    pickledpepperRN replied to flaerman's topic in General Nursing

    You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. It is good your family is taking time with each other

  5. Medicare For All H.R. 676

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Medicare For All H.R. 676: The Conyers Bill Brief Summary of Legislation http://www.healthcare-now.org/printsummarytest.html...

  6. UCLA New Grad Program

    pickledpepperRN replied to Katie612's topic in California Nursing

    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

  7. Europe healthier than U.S.

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Notice the great effort they go to in this article to downplay the most obvious difference between Europe and the U.S. - our healthcare

  8. Mandatory Health insurance? Is it a solution to health care?

    pickledpepperRN replied to Faery1's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  9. Socialized/Universal/Single Payer/Government Funded Health care....why?

    pickledpepperRN replied to MBANurse's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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

  10. A heartfelt patient's (and future nurse's?) view on healthcare in the US

    pickledpepperRN replied to EnduringFaith's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  11. Europe healthier than U.S.

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  12. Take a deep breath, and read

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Take a deep breath, and read January 2, 2008 I was on my way to the Encino home of a 10-year-old boy named Preston, but I could have gone in any direction for the same kind of story. Ever since I...

  13. Take a deep breath, and read

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  14. Health Reform is the Most Important Domestic Policy Issue

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  15. Medicare For All H.R. 676

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    ■ 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...

  16. Making Room at America's Inn for All God's Children

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Making Room at America's Inn for All God's Children -- Marian Wright Edelman http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marian-wright-edelman/making-room-at-americas-_b_77872.html ..."For Christians, another holy...

  17. Medicare For All H.R. 676

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    If so why not figure out how to do so efficiently? Safe, effective, therapeutic health care for

  18. Making Room at America's Inn for All God's Children

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  19. A heartfelt patient's (and future nurse's?) view on healthcare in the US

    pickledpepperRN replied to EnduringFaith's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  20. A heartfelt patient's (and future nurse's?) view on healthcare in the US

    pickledpepperRN replied to EnduringFaith's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  21. Ohio Nurses Speak Out

    pickledpepperRN replied to RN Power Ohio's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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

  22. Uninsured health improves when eligble for Medicare at age 65

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    HEALTH COVERAGE IMPROVES HEALTH AND REDUCES MAJOR HEART COMPLICATIONS FINDINGS: A 12-year study of over 7,000 Americans shows that individuals without health insurance experience a dramatic...

  23. Medicare For All H.R. 676

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  24. Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    A nurse was on O'Reilly to talk about single payer healthcare:

  25. Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas Files to Decertify the CNA

    pickledpepperRN replied to Sherwood's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    ■ CNA dues are capped at $89.52 per month ■CNA monthly dues are 2.2 times your base hourly rate, which equals approximately one hour of your base pay rate per pay period (not including...