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A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

That money is only "stolen" with gov't collusion that prevents the real competition that would bring the best mix of quality and pricing. In fact, it really isn't stolen at all. That excess greed is...
A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

We have very different ideas about institutional versus individual roles in such things. You can't have FREEDOM if you are a slave to the gov't. And, as it happens, I don't particularly believe in...
A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

Our framers declared that 'WE the People' are our own gov't because they were secure in the limitations they had placed upon that gov't to be anything otherwise. You propose removing those limitations...
A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

I cry foul. Medicare is bloated, and wasteful. Or, would you like a powerchair, at no cost to you? In addition, even if it was the panacea you claim, it's unsustainable. It does no good to look, as a...
A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

There is so much money floating around Washington, combined with the personality that would seek election, it is a practical impossibility that anybody you could elect WOULDN'T sell out. Combine that...
A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

It works both ways, they are in bed together, friends with mutual benefits. Either way, they don't have YOUR best interests, first. THAT ought to scare the heck out of anybody wanting to place faith...
A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

Gov't restricted healthcare IS uncompassionate, which is why I'm against it. You've just identified the biggest problem with turning over your life and liberty to the gov't - it only seems wise when...
A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

Wisdom as old as America, herself: "It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their...
A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

If only we could get the gov't out of the business of financing schemes for healthcare, the price would come WAY down in order to cater to what the market can bear - AND - because the compaines that...
A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

I don't trust the insurance companies, BECAUSE they are in bed with gov't. As such, they are pseudo-gov't agencies. A gov't run monopoly would not be a change from the current problems with...
A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=51faeaa7-5021-40d0-95d3-0f260b25edd4 This, in an article generally favorable of gov't restricted healthcare: "In a universal coverage system, the government would...
A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

And yet, these very elected leaders are whom you want to entrust with MY healthcare. I think YOUR healthcare would be much better off left in the hands of someone with a vested interest to protect it:...
resuscitation and family presence

ZASHAGALKA replied to gaylordfocker2002's topic in General Nursing

A very lengthy thread on this very topic: https://allnurses.com/forums/f8/family-witnessing-code-activities-117691.html I think it gives much insight into the concerns involved. ~faith,
A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1682269,00.html The Real Health Care Radicals "If you listen to what each party says about the other, you would get a very different impression. To...
A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

Nevertheless, you scoff at halliburton even as you advocate a healthcare system that will bring companies like halliburton to bear to be your gov't contracted healthcare provider. You can't have it...
A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

That cartoon is an example of the neomercantilism that comes from being in bed with gov't. Those insurance companies aren't in contrast to gov't interference in healthcare; they are in collusion with...
A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

Halliburton isn't the free market. It is an example of neomercantilistic bonding with gov't. Halliburton-type contracts will be the example of single payor. The elected officials that will run your...
Family-Focused Care in Adult Critical Care

ZASHAGALKA replied to VickyRN's topic in Critical Care

It's a fad. Once managers and administrators remember exactly why we implemented closed visitation policies in the first place, they will creep back in. Closed visitation is patient advocacy. "In...
The Circumcision Discussion

ZASHAGALKA replied to jmspeach's topic in Ob/Gyn

Wowsers! This now makes my OP from last year the lead thread. In THAT thread, I was pointing to the research that showed a link between circ and HIV reduction. I wasn't trying to discuss the cultural...
A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/business/04view.html?_r=2&ei=5088&en=3d64fb9624df7a4e&ex=1351918800&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1194499288-f8+v...
Why so many fail out of our program?

ZASHAGALKA replied to lizzyberry's topic in General Students

This is what I said, in another thread. California study regarding nursing school attrition: http://www.ucop.edu/cprc/documents/nursingprograms.pdf ~faith,
A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

Our healthcare costs are FAR more than 25% more than they should be. In a free market, they would be far less as competition lead the the best combination of quality vs. cost. Our healthcare costs are...
A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

I think we DO have the best healthcare, in the world. At issue isn't the provision of care, but the financing of it. Even you admit this with your summation that the issue, for you, is single payor, a...
Is BSN harder than ASN?

ZASHAGALKA replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

I think you could maybe find a consensus that BSN isn't harder per se, but more comprehensive. I think few BSNs would argue that ADN's aren't 'smart enough' to go to a BSN program. That really isn't...
I'm supposed to wear an "Ask me if I washed my hands!" button?!

ZASHAGALKA replied to daisybaby's topic in Activism, Healthcare

I said this earlier in this thread: "And the sign says, no good dirty-handed nurses need not apply. . . " DON'T DO THIS; DON'T DO THAT. CAN'T YOU READ THE SIGN??? ~faith,

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