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California Nurses Association

An Inglorious End to the Promise of Reform

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics

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

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 10.19.2009 | Home

Read More: Strike, California, Swine Flu Vaccine, Nurses, Preparation, Swine Flu Nurse Strike, Swine Flu, California Nurses Association, H1N1 Vaccine, Catholic Healthcare West, California Nurses Union, Nursing Strike, Swine Flu Preparedness, Vaccine, H1n1, Home News

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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Health Insurance Industry Exposes Its Insatiable Greed

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Greed, Cigna, Stephen Hemsley, Edward Hanway, Health Care for American Now, Hcan, Angela Braly, UnitedHealth Group, Humana, Insurance Industry, Profits, Max Baucus, Wellpoint, Karen Ignagni, Ahip, America's Health Insurance Plans, Michael McCallister, Rose Ann DeMoro, California Nurses Association, Richard Kirsch, Nancy Ann DeParle, Evan Bayh, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, Kent Conrad, Blanche Lincoln, Politics News
Peter Dreier

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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Help Us Investigate How Often Health Insurers Deny Claims

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Adam Clark Estes | Posted 11.18.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: House of Representatives, Unitedhealth, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Health Insurance Industry, Health Insurance, Cigna, Aetna, Humana, Health Care Reform, Health Care, America's Health Insurance Plans, Healthcare, California Nurses Association, Eyes & Ears News

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 09.25.2009 | Green

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
Lisa Kaas Boyle

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 05.31.2009 | Living

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

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 05.07.2009 | Politics

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

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 10.03.2008 | Politics

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

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 06.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: California, Health Insurance, Health Care, Nurses, California Nurses Association, Politics News
Beth Broderick

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 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Unions Ohio, Unions, California Nurses Association, Service Employees International, Seiu, Politics News

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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