RN4MERCY

RN4MERCY

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  1. How can the profit driven , private insurance funded healthcare system be fixed ?

    RN4MERCY replied to nicurn001's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    This is an industry that is all but impossible to regulate. You can't pick up a paper without reading about insurers being fined for fraud and deception, dropping coverage, refusing treatments and...

  2. How can the profit driven , private insurance funded healthcare system be fixed ?

    RN4MERCY replied to nicurn001's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Have you ever travelled in Canada, the UK, or the Netherlands? I have, and it seems to me the people living there have a quite decent standard of living, and as many shoppers in any mall or store that...

  3. Freedom of speech in health care.

    RN4MERCY replied to advocateforsafety's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I love the "I won't surrender in advance" spirit. There are a lot of people who believe they can't make a difference so they give up. You don't have to go into their den alone. Your fight is our...

  4. RNs Welcome Blue Ribbon Panel Call To Rebuild St. Luke's Hospital

    RN4MERCY replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Great post and a reminder to nurses about their authority and duty under the law to act as patient advocates. We have the power, if we use it collectively, and in unity, to create positive and vital...

  5. Freedom of speech in health care.

    RN4MERCY replied to advocateforsafety's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Fight on, brother! Just got called in to the manager's office yesterday; she'd received a call from the DON regarding our advocacy activities. Thank God for my union, CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION....

  6. Paying More, Getting Less: Just Where Do America's Health Care Dollars Go?

    RN4MERCY replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Of course there will always be corporate cheaters who belly up to the public trough to feed their greed! We have to have the political will to stop the influence of dirty money that favors corporate...

  7. Falling Behind: Americans' Access to Medical Care Deteriorates

    RN4MERCY replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I don't think there is a more heinous, complex, and wasteful bureaucracy in the United States, than that of multiple insurers, who consider it an acceptable business practice to delay and deny...

  8. National Day of protest Against Insurance Corps

    RN4MERCY replied to Ludlow's topic in Activism, Healthcare

  9. Falling Behind: Americans' Access to Medical Care Deteriorates

    RN4MERCY replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The "marketplace" is a lousy way to distribute health care. And, calling Walmart a health provider is really a stretch; they're in the business of retail sales. Competition? for the healthiest...

  10. striking nurses

    RN4MERCY replied to amandasdad's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I'm so very sorry about your daughter. I hear your angst and sadness as you endure a life time of pain. As a nurse who cares very much about professional nursing practice and patient advocacy, I'm...

  11. Falling Behind: Americans' Access to Medical Care Deteriorates

    RN4MERCY replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    According to Dr. Don McCanne, Senior Health Policy Fellow of Physicians for a National Health Plan, "the Medicare Advantage plans are being paid about 12 percent more (17 percent for PFFS plans) than...

  12. U.S. Conference of Mayors Backs Single-Payer National Health Insurance

    RN4MERCY replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I received this commentary from Dr. Don McCanne, Senior Healh Policy Fellow/ Physicians for a National Health Plan: http://www.pnhp.org/news/quote_of_the_day.php "The next politician who tells you...

  13. Nurses' group continues union efforts at Norton Audubon Hospital

    RN4MERCY replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    :yeah:I hope those nurses continue to build on the support of their peers and the public so they can win a strong union, so that no one will have to go it alone against unscrupulous employers....

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

    RN4MERCY replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Absolutely, your wife and her colleagues will not find a more righteous social, professional, and patient advocacy organization than the National Nurses Organizing Committee, founded by the California...

  15. "Turnover is good"

    RN4MERCY replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    thanks for the link to the 'healthleadersmedia' article, "turnover is good...". i found it disturbing in a lot of respects , although, i appreciate your comments about the conditions that attract...

  16. Letter to Congress: ANA "Safe Staffing Saves Lives" campaign

    RN4MERCY replied to marie-francoise's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Thanks, and you're so right. A twelve year fight, involving thousands of our members who lobbied, wrote letters, and visited their legislators and attended hearings to provide testimony to expose...

  17. Anti- union, anti- staffing ratio nurses

    RN4MERCY replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Progressive nurses advocate for workers' rights and social justice. There's a myth out there being propagated by these union busters that the nursing profession achieved it's stature and garnered the...

  18. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    RN4MERCY replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Thanks, herring. I'm on the same page and appreciate your advocacy and level headed responses to bitters... I hope she shares her point of reference. Those of us who are direct care registered...

  19. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    RN4MERCY replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Bittersweet, Please read the ratio law! A nurse, is a nurse, is a nurse? Although only LVNs and RNs may call themselves "nurses" in the State of California, their legal scope of practice, and...

  20. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    RN4MERCY replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

  21. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    RN4MERCY replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Thanks for this, and your point is well taken; the source is a press release from a union bu$ting firm. Speaking of union bu$ting, did you see that the former Bu$h appointee to the National Labor...

  22. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    RN4MERCY replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I believe that the NNOC can and will survive in Texas, because nurses will collectively support an organization that promotes and defends the ideal, "first-do no harm." A strong union protects and...

  23. Republican Party Platform of 1956, LABOR

    RN4MERCY replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Agreed! And although I'm not getting any younger, I can remember back to 2000 when the supremes selected a self proclaimed pro-life president who cares more for oil and corporate interests than...

  24. Just Off Insular Senate Floor, Life of the Uninsured Intrudes

    RN4MERCY replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Some people seem to believe that hospitals are a "vacation destination." Overuse and frequent fliers? I say no, just real people with unmet needs and nowhere else to go for help. They forget that...

  25. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    RN4MERCY replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    CyFair Houston Texas Nurses have won the right to continue building the only genuine "SAFE HARBOR" for nursing practice and patient advocacy in Texas! There is strength in Union, and in solidarity...