Honnête et Sérieux

Honnête et Sérieux specializes in Flight Nurse, Pedi CICU, IR, Adult CTICU.

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1. WPAHS makes antitrust charges against UPMC and the Blues

   Honnête et Sérieux replied to oramar's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

   No

2. Obama's Health Care plan. Is it a stepping stone to H.R 676, or a road to nowhere?

   Honnête et Sérieux replied to GCTMT's topic in Activism, Healthcare

   When it comes to 'reality,' I am constantly injecting it into the discussion when folks routinely use the pointless distraction of using the European/Canadian comparison. You are right...it's not...

3. Why do you believe what you believe, concerning your position on health care?

   Honnête et Sérieux replied to GCTMT's topic in Activism, Healthcare

   This is not the case in the US...most firefighters are volunteers and many are not tax-supported. Many ambulance services are private, even if non-profit, and do not rely on tax-dollars. And for every...

4. Why do you believe what you believe, concerning your position on health care?

   Honnête et Sérieux replied to GCTMT's topic in Activism, Healthcare

   And such extrapolation indicates an incomplete evaluation of the definition of a right, and what that provides to us. What one absolutely CANNOT extrapolate from the Constitution is that the gov't has...

5. UPMC CEO Romoff's salary hits $4.45 million

   Honnête et Sérieux replied to oramar's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

   UPMC is not entirely a non-profit, and they never pretend to be. AND, they pay taxes on their for-profit endeavors. Additionally, they give back millions to the city, i.e. the $100 MILLION for the...

6. WPAHS makes antitrust charges against UPMC and the Blues

   Honnête et Sérieux replied to oramar's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

   Well, I suppose thinking pragmatically it makes sense to blame UPMC for closing southside, but the reality is that you can't possibly know that Soutside would remain open if it were affiliated with...

7. 10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care

   Honnête et Sérieux replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

   No you don't. Some of the most financially efficient health systems in the world are NOT single-payer, but are systems that incorporate private insurance into the mix. Kind of doesn't support the...

8. Interesting article on Obama health care plan

   Honnête et Sérieux replied to Future-nurse's topic in Activism, Healthcare

   The illogical element is the inaccurate definition of people's position. Prolife people are not prolife because the specifically want to oppose people's capacity to choose, they are prolife because...

9. 10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care

   Honnête et Sérieux replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

   Just to clarify, Iraq was in a 12-year humanitarian crisis before the liberation of the Iraqi people, caused by the UN, not the US. Iraqi children were dying in six-figure numbers at the time....

10. UPMC CEO Romoff's salary hits $4.45 million

    Honnête et Sérieux replied to oramar's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I think when you take a city-based hospital, expand it by almost 10 times to provide health care to an entire region, create a global footprint with their services, and take it to a position that...

11. WPAHS makes antitrust charges against UPMC and the Blues

    Honnête et Sérieux replied to oramar's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    WPAHS is a dismal failure at understanding the dynamics of the Western PA health market. If they understood the market, they wouldn't be sitting around in a pity-circle trying to figure out why the...

12. Interesting article on Obama health care plan

    Honnête et Sérieux replied to Future-nurse's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    First, you don't know that to be true. Second, it's a deflection; someone unconditionally claimed that NHS recipients could just get private insurance. That was the point I was responding to. It...

13. WPAHS makes antitrust charges against UPMC and the Blues

    Honnête et Sérieux replied to oramar's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    You asked where you could "witness" the arrogance, so I shared an example. Since I worked for the organization long before they offered me the partial FTE, I had a strong grip on the "mood" of the...

14. WPAHS makes antitrust charges against UPMC and the Blues

    Honnête et Sérieux replied to oramar's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I experienced it at Alle-Kiski and AGH. I was a per-diem employee at Alle-Kiski, and was invited to take a partial FTE position with benefits and a seat on a committee. Since it wasn't full-time, I...

15. ANA membership?

    Honnête et Sérieux replied to firstyearRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    i'm sure the ana would argue they did the former rather than the latter. of course they would...but then, they would be wrong. i'm sure you will correct me upon this , if i misunderstand the nuances...