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  1. Nurses Associations Disaffiliate from United American Nurses

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

    I don't know. Does anyone know

  2. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Why did Cigna approve it after it was too

  3. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Tough calls in transplant case December 22 2007 ...Dr. Goran Klintmalm, chief of the Baylor Regional Transplant Institute in Dallas, said the operation that UCLA wanted to perform was a "very...

  4. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Girl Denied Healthcare Coverage, Dies; CEO Makes $21 Million

  5. Single Payer System does NOT provide all treatments

    pickledpepperRN replied to azhiker96's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I do think that IF the American people were to condone denial of care in OUR health system it could happen here. It does now too. I think we are a kind people who will want to ensure that so long as...

  6. Single Payer System does NOT provide all treatments

    pickledpepperRN replied to azhiker96's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I'm away from home sharing a friends lap top. With Single payer the providers of care stay the same. They must compete because everyone can really choose their provider. Now most of us muct "choose"...

  7. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    CIGNA yielded $16.5 billion in revenue in 2006 http://www.cigna.com/about_us/investor_relations/financialstrength.html Did the Cigna employee examine the girl before denying her transplant? Or...

  8. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    A transplant surgeon speaks out ...If the doctors treating Nataline can tell the family and Cigna in a letter that patients in similar situations have a 65% chance of living six months--then it is...

  9. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    YES I think the hospital should have done the transplant. And then fight the insurance corporation attorneys. * Insurance corporation employ Case Managers following members thru their...

  10. Healthcare burden growing

    pickledpepperRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Too Great A Burden: America's Families at Risk Health care costs have become a growing burden for Americaʼs families, as premiums and out-of-pocket expenses continue to rise at alarming rates....

  11. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Odetta did sing those lyrics. She is amazing still. Anita Carter (SIL to Johnny Cash) -"All My Trials"

  12. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I heard her mother say this. I believe her. If it were untrue who doesn't Cigna correct

  13. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Here it

  14. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    A transplant surgeon speaks

  15. Absolute No-No's

    pickledpepperRN replied to Drysolong's topic in General Nursing

    Great advice here! One more that we used to do in the 70s. Don't give a

  16. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The distraut mother used the term vegetative state. The father said she was sedated. The pictures on the brothers video taken after the BMT show her alert, wearing a

  17. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    How often have I, like my fellow nurses, been comforted that we did the best we knew how attempting to save a patient. Especially a child? Videos: Her brother did this one - Interview with David...

  18. A Generation of Wimps?

    pickledpepperRN replied to EDNewbie's topic in Emergency

    When working in the ER you only see those who go to the ER. Tens of thousands of people of every generation are in pain and/or vomiting at home right now. We will not see them in the ER. It is good to...

  19. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    ...A 17-year-old leukemia patient from Northridge died Thursday at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA, hours after her insurance company bowed to a nationwide protest and reversed its earlier denial...

  20. Cheney would "probably be dead by now" if not for his federally funded health care

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Out of context quotes not even including the rest of the sentence are

  21. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Since you asked twice I will give the only answer I can. I do not know. I do know that the family was responsible. They purchased health

  22. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I suggest that if you want to post an opinion that you read the posts and links first. I am sad that one news source got facts wrong. Letter from Cigna -...

  23. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    ABC got some important facts wrong.On December 11, 2007 UCLA had a matching liver and on that day Cigna denied to transplant as "experimental". She developed pneumonia and had to be sedated AFTER the...

  24. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Her Mother knows her daughter is in heaven. My heart is broken for this family. On local TV this morning they said that on December 11th the doctors gave her a 65% chance for a full recovery with the...

  25. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    CIGNA, In Switch, To Fund Transplant Courant Staff Report December 21, 2007 ...California nurses, family of the patient, and others gathered Thursday outside CIGNA's Glendale, Calif., office to demand...