NurseHardee

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  1. Actual Article: "Socialized Health-Care Nightmare"

    NurseHardee replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Yawn. Then let's go back to the basics, Kitkat. Tell me how it is that people like Leonid Breznev build up the Soviet Union average life span to 70 some odd years, but US stooge allies like...

  2. Actual Article: "Socialized Health-Care Nightmare"

    NurseHardee replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Nobody addressed the reality that it's capitalism that is NOW reducing life span in the former Soviet Union, and not the previous system with all its supposed defects. How long are apologists for...

  3. Don't Get Sick and Expect the Government to Take Care of You..

    NurseHardee replied to CseMgr1's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    It's the same people, this US government and the insurance company. And their strategy to make things profitable is to corrupt the process of how care is obtained, so as to maximize profit thru the...

  4. Don't Get Sick and Expect the Government to Take Care of You..

    NurseHardee replied to CseMgr1's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Panda, you might be surprised? But don't we have governments to help us take care of ourselves? Instead, we have one that takes care of corporations! What on earth do you think governments...

  5. Uncharitable Care: How Hospitals Are Gouging and Even Arresting the Uninsured

    NurseHardee replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Another one of them Those Welfare Cheater tirades. If I had a nickle for all of them I have heard in my lifetime, I could pay for those insurance premiums. As it is, as a US nurse I try to get...

  6. Actual Article: "Socialized Health-Care Nightmare"

    NurseHardee replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Let's see now? Russia with capitalism restored has shortened men's life span about 9 years in a single decade..... Pravda.RU:Top Stories:More in detail 17:02 2001-02-03 In Russia is the shortest...

  7. Retaining workers key to solving nursing shortage

    NurseHardee replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I think Owney has hit the nail on the head here. The key for RNs to gain control over their work environment is for the floor RNs to join campaigns that better conditions for all bedside care...

  8. A Doctor Talks About Why US Health is in Decline

    NurseHardee replied to NurseHardee's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Another Doctor's Opinion on The Same Situation Published on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 by the Boston Globe Better Doctors, But Worse Care by Steve Bergman TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ago I published "The...

  9. Slaughterhouses, Mad Cows, and Public Health

    NurseHardee posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- excerpt from... Rolling Stone magazine (USA), Issue 794, September 3rd 1998 Fast-Food Nation: Meat and Potatoes By...

  10. KROGER'S ON STRIKE - - 3 states involved- - guess what they want???

    NurseHardee replied to passing thru's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Thanks, xoe, for levelling the idea that grocery workers are making a killing compared to nurses. And for the info of sc RN who I offended, I live in Texas but just moved back. The last...

  11. Slaughterhouses, Mad Cows, and Public Health

    NurseHardee replied to NurseHardee's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Published on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 by the Village Voice Slaughterhouse Politics: Ranchers Fought Rules That Might Have Prevented Mad Cow by James Ridgeway WASHINGTON, D.C.--When it comes to...

  12. KROGER'S ON STRIKE - - 3 states involved- - guess what they want???

    NurseHardee replied to passing thru's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    In all fields I have ever worked in, the pay and conditions were better in about 4 out of 5 places wqhen they had a union. That's not bad odds. So even with all the problems that come about in...

  13. How can nurses forget to scrub hands???

    NurseHardee replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Well the article was not online when I tried to access it. But let me kinda answer the question.... How could nurses forget to scrub hands? I always try to scrub my hands while doing my notes,...

  14. KROGER'S ON STRIKE - - 3 states involved- - guess what they want???

    NurseHardee replied to passing thru's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Save us from the resentful worker mad at another group of workers for supposedly having it a tad better than she does, so she takes up the cause of the corporations! With this note, the...

  15. Slaughterhouses, Mad Cows, and Public Health

    NurseHardee replied to NurseHardee's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Barb, well it's mostly non-union now, and conditions are going backwards, not forwards. One of my best friend's dad (ages ago) was Businees Manager of a meatcutters local. Not any more; the union...

  16. Slaughterhouses, Mad Cows, and Public Health

    NurseHardee replied to NurseHardee's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    That's kind of a strange response to my post.... What does it mean when you ask me if I'm serving humanity, Barb? I thought the article was informative. I found the info on a website of a...

  17. Redding Medical Center Update--Tenet to SELL

    NurseHardee replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    These guys get into scandals and sell places back and forth to each other, and change their names every other year. What a

  18. KROGER'S ON STRIKE - - 3 states involved- - guess what they want???

    NurseHardee replied to passing thru's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Rude? Well this whole thread was started out by a nurse being resentful that Kroger workers might not want to have their health benefits eroded away! Instead of her wanting to have better health...

  19. A Doctor Talks About Why US Health is in Decline

    NurseHardee replied to NurseHardee's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Part 2... How is it that a bigger gap society has worse health than a more egalitarian society. Consider two extremes: an egalitarian society where everyone is more or less equal, and a very...