Honnête et Sérieux

Honnête et Sérieux

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  1. I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

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

    If they are illegal, they deserve ONE dialysis treatment and a bus ride back to Mexico. It doesn't matter what label you put on a healthcare system, any system is finite, and a socialized system will...

  2. union pro or con

    Honnête et Sérieux replied to mark3274's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    and ironically, this was still the best in california. one can only shudder to think what is happening in the rest of the state if this is the best-foot-forward for employees. is the implication here...

  3. I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

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

    thanks, but the majority of the information i presented is fact, little of it is opinion. and i appreciate yours as

  4. I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

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

    this person did; ...and you did indirectly when you presented the inaccurate number referring to the alleged 45 million of uninsured people in the us. and as it stands, all american citizens are...

  5. I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

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

    No they aren't. Of this, I have first hand experience. If this were true, then these systems would be crushed in a day by people conveniently being "on vacation" in a socialized medicine country when...

  6. I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

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

    No one gets more or less "postal service" than another. No one gets FREE postal service. Everyone, rich or poor, pays the same for a stamp, money order, or passport. It seems to be a counterproductive...

  7. I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

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

    As I said already, Soc. Sec. announced a 25% reduction in my soc. sec. benefit when I retire; this announcement came BEFORE any downturn in the market. The market will recover, but I expect no such...

  8. I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

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

    this is a false number; there are not 47 million uninsured americans. millions of people improperly included in this number are not americans, millions more are people who can afford insurance, but...

  9. I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

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

    The WHO methodology is flawed; there is a reason why they stopped generating their "rankings" list. And I have NEVER heard anyone say, "if you can't afford insurance, then you don't deserve it," and I...

  10. I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

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

    A disclaimer on my last social security statement; "by 2041, the payroll taxes collected will be enough to pay only about 75 percent of scheduled benefits." In spite of that, they are still deducting...

  11. UPMC to take away RN sign on bonuses effective 2-29-08

    Honnête et Sérieux replied to dorselm's topic in General Nursing

    Former UPMC'er here. I received a bonus that was actually a "tuition" bonus ($9k) years ago, so it was not subject to the devestating taxes. That said, nursing was a second career, and I always had...

  12. I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

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

    The problem is not with the US health care system; the problem is with the horrendously flawed methodology used to create the rankings. You can't rank health care systems by using non-healthcare...

  13. BC3, Sewickley, UPMC Shadyside

    Honnête et Sérieux replied to osc9904's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    If you are geographically willing to attend those schools (all good, btw), I wouldn't rule out UPMC St. Margaret's, UPMC Mercy, West Penn, Westmoreland County Comm. College, or Citizen's...

  14. The Great American Hospital Organizing Campaign has begun!

    Honnête et Sérieux replied to jsrRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    The consolidation of corruption. Brings a tear to my

  15. Socialized medicine and nurses pay...

    Honnête et Sérieux replied to RochesterRN-BSN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Doesn't support some hyberbolic inference about people dying on the streets. http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090323/CGY_er_waits_090323/20090323/?hub=CalgaryHome...

  16. union pro or con

    Honnête et Sérieux replied to mark3274's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    And California is broke and ranks 32 out of 42 states on healthcare (in an article published on WebMD). No thanks. BTW, laws against gender/racial discrimination, child labor, and unsafe work places...

  17. union pro or con

    Honnête et Sérieux replied to mark3274's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    It seems to me that pro-union people are often pro-universal health care. Doesn't make sense. Why would they think that the gov't is the best agency to provide health care, but a non-gov't union is...

  18. union pro or con

    Honnête et Sérieux replied to mark3274's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Might have a point except the whole labor movement is tainted...it's not just a "greedy union steward or

  19. union pro or con

    Honnête et Sérieux replied to mark3274's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    There is insufficient room on this forum to share the extensive, chronic, and routine behavior of corruption in labor unions. Would a reference by the CNA about the corruption of the SEIU be...

  20. Socialized medicine and nurses pay...

    Honnête et Sérieux replied to RochesterRN-BSN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Who said that? BTW, does it matter where they are when they die? On the street or in their house waiting for an appointment? The United States ranks #2 in the most recent year available. Untrue....

  21. 10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care

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

    Of course it's futile to debate when the content of the debate quickly leaves the flawed assumptions and assertions, and resorts to attacking the character of the participants. Not to mention that the...

  22. 10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care

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

    A healthcare system is much more than a dynamically calculated infant mortality rate, longevity calculation, and collection of stories about people who didn't get the services they felt they should...

  23. 10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care

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

    If you blindly accept that a Nobel prize winner in economics has somehow pegged a solution to healthcare economics just because he supports a matching view of a socialized system and won a Nobel...

  24. 10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care

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

    Do you think it's "saving" Canadian hospitals? Do you know how many Canadian Hospitals have closed or merged in the past 14 years? Why isn't their health care system saving their

  25. Health Provisions Slipped into Stimulus Package

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

    Regardless of what folks think of the article or Dr. McCaughey (the author), I think it's important to point something out since I saw this shot fired across the bow of "the right wing media." Dr....