California Nurses Association

CNA Nurses Deserve Our Support

Tom Dalzell | Posted 02.21.2012

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It wasn't a system that saved my life -- it was a group of highly trained, very motivated and caring people. That's why, if I were able to walk today, I'd be out on the picket line with nurses who saved my life.

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Keep Nataline's Spirit of Christmas Alive

Wendell Potter | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: National Nurses United, Donna Smith, Christmas, Nataline Sarkisyan, Health Care Reform, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Cigna, Health Care, California Nurses Association, Politics News

Anyone who believes that American doctors call the shots when it comes to providing medical care for their insured patients is sadly mistaken. Insurance companies essentially have the power to make what amount to life and death decisions.

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'Some Cuts Don't Heal': Nurses Protest In Droves Across California

AP | By SUDHIN THANAWALA | Posted 11.23.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Nurses in red union shirts carried signs and chanted slogans outside dozens of Northern and Central California hospitals into the nig...

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Health Care Costs At Center Of California Labor Disputes

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Video, Labor, Nurses, Health Care Costs, National Union of Healthcare Workers, Kaiser Permanente, Health Care, Unions, Labor Unions, Nuhw, California Nurses Association, Business News

More than 20,000 nurses and hospital workers will likely go on strike throughout California later this week, in one of the largest such work stoppages...

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Death Panels Real and Imagined

Wendell Potter | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: UCLA Medical Center, Leukemia, Ipab, Phil Gingrey, Death Panels, Sarah Palin, Nataline Sarkisyan, Health Care Reform, Mercedes-Benz, Affordable Care Act, Congress, Cigna, Medicare, Health Care, California Nurses Association, Obamacare, Politics News

The closest thing to real death panels that operate in this country are not run by a bunch of government bureaucrats but by a bunch of corporate bureaucrats who work deep inside U.S. insurance companies.

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Nurse Protest Prompts Blue Shield to Delay Rate Hike

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 05.25.2011

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People power works, and not just in Egypt. Blue Shield of California today announced a 60-day reprieve for the unconscionable rate hike of up to 59 p...

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Next Sunday: Protest at Right-Wing Billionaires' Secret Summit near Palm Springs

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Civil Rights Coalition, David Koch, Tea Party, Koch Brothers, Poder Popular, Erwin Chemerinsky, Health Access, Health Care for America Now (HCAN), California Partnership, Calpirg, Van Jones, Code Pink, Afscme, California Labor Federation, Rock the Vote, Energy Action Coalition, U.S. Action, Alliance for Justice, Protest, Rancho Las Palmas Resort, Common Cause, Lee Fang, Moveon, Courage Campaign, California Student Sustainability Coalition, Sierra Club, California Nurses Association, DeeAnn McEwen, Cato Institute, Robert Reich, Rancho Mirage, Greenpeace, Women?S International League for Peace and Freedom, National Council of Jewish Women, California Council of Churches, Planned Parenthood of California, United Domestic Workers, Charles Koch, Consumer Watchdog, Credo, Aclu, Politics News

A broad coalition of consumer, community, labor, environmental, student, civil liberties, and faith-based groups are sponsoring a rally in Rancho Mira...

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"You Are Not to Hire Any Filipinos"

Deborah Burger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Racism, Labor, Filipino, Nurses, California Nurses Association, Sutter St. Lukes, Los Angeles News

One of California's largest medical systems, Sutter Health/CPMC, has apparently enacted a ban on the hiring of Filipino registered nurses at a major San Francisco hospital.

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Raising Hell, Not Raising Money, Is What the Middle Class Needs From American Labor

Jamie Court | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Progressive's Guide to Raising Hell, Labor Movement, Labor Day, California Nurses Association, Seiu, Meg Whitman, Rose Ann DeMoro, Politics News

As we scan the labor movement across America, the hell raisers are building their numbers and the fundraisers are fading away. The fate of the middle class depends largely on what paradigm American labor chooses.

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Report: Thousands Of California Nurses Punished By Other States Maintain California Licenses

latimes.com | Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The state's Board of Registered Nursing has discovered that some 3,500 of its nurses have been punished for misconduct by other states -- hundreds eve...

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Thousands Of California Nurses Protest Meg Whitman

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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More than 3,000 registered nurses -- joined by women's rights and labor activists -- are gathering in Sacramento on Thursday to protest California gub...

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California's Nurses and Women Take on Billionaire CEO Meg Whitman

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meg Whitman, Ca Governor Election, National Nurses United, Nurses, California Nurses Association, Politics News

For some who take our most basic rights for granted, it may be hard to imagine that for nearly 150 years in our republic, American women were denied ...

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Nurses Make a House Call

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

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Meg Whitman has made attacks on unions, and particularly the California Nurses Association, a centerpiece of her campaign against Jerry Brown. But now California nurses are taking a stand -- on her doorstep.

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Health Insurance Industry Exposes Its Insatiable Greed

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

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After pretending for months to cooperate with the Obama administration and Democrats to secure a reasonable health reform bill, the industry's CEOs and lobbyists on Sunday double-crossed their one-time political allies.

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An Inglorious End to the Promise of Reform

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Nurses, California Nurses Association, National Nurses Organizing Committee, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Senate Bill, Politics News

The greatest tragedy of the current health reform bill is that it may lock into place a dysfunctional and inhumane system that threatens to move beyond the reach of more comprehensive reform for generations to come.

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Nurses Threaten To Strike Over Swine Flu

AP | SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — A California nurses' union has threatened a one-day strike at 34 hospitals, accusing the providers of poor swine flu preparedness....

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Join Our Investigation: How Often Do Health Insurers Deny Claims?

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Adam Clark Estes | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amid all the loud arguments about the proper role for government and private companies in American health care, one point often seems lost: Exactly ho...

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California Battles to Ban BPA from Baby Bottles, Sippy Cups and Infant Formula

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fran Pavley, Sippy Cups, Senate Bill 797, Harvey Karp, Nih, Baby Bottles, Bisphenol A, Bpa, Cdc, Environmental Working Group, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Hormones, California Nurses Association, American Chemistry Council, Green News

You may not be familiar with the chemical bisphenol A, commonly known as BPA, but there is an excellent chance that BPA is very familiar with you.

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America's RNs Call for Much Broader Response to Swine Flu

Deborah Burger | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Health Care, Swine Flu, Nurses, Swine Flu Pandemic, California Nurses Association, Healthy Living News

An immediate shift in priorities and thinking is needed, if not for swine flu, for the coming plague.

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White House Summit In Denial On Regulating Health Care Costs

Jamie Court | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Universal Health Care, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, California Nurses Association, Obama Health Care Summit, Politics News

None of the solutions dealt with how patients who lost coverage would be able to afford it again under an overhaul where the only cost savings come from medical prevention.

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Palin Mirrors McCain's Free Market Healthcare Fundamentalism

Deborah Burger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, John McCain, Nurses, Healthcare, Sarah Palin, California Nurses Association, Politics News

Gov. Palin's portfolio on healthcare, as in other areas, is thin. But she is a vocal proponent of market medical care and deregulation, the path that has led to the current grave healthcare crisis.

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It Doesn't Have To Be Like This

Beth Broderick | Posted 05.25.2011

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All of us have stories about desperately ill friends and family who have faced the cold cruel reality of being denied treatment by an indifferent insurer. We must all make our voices heard.

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Union War Erupts In Ohio

Chicago Tribune | Stephen Franklin | Posted 05.25.2011

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An explosion of insults between officials from the Service Employees International Union and the California Nurses Association capped a scrapped effor...

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