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RNs Evacuate Wildfire Patients, Face Personal Loss More »

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SB562 Actions in 80 California Assembly Districts More »

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RN Relief Program Deploys Team to Puerto Rico More »

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Sanders, Newsom Stress Need for Single Payer More »

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Kaiser, Sutter Santa Rosa RNs Help Evacuate Wildfire Patients, While Also Facing Personal Losses

Kaiser, Sutter Santa Rosa RNs Help Evacuate Wildfire Patients, While Also Facing Personal Losses

As a series of wildfires raged in Napa and Sonoma counties Monday, registered nurses at Kaiser Santa Rosa and Sutter Santa Rosa found themselves in the position of both first responder, helping to evacuate patients, and disaster victim, with 15 RNs have also lost their homes—as RNs at surrounding hospitals, and volunteer nurses from as far away as San Jose, stepped up to help provide care. —California Nurses Association, 10/10/17 More »

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Medicare-for-All Supporters Plan Over 100 Grassroots Actions in All 80 California Assembly Districts

Medicare-for-All Supporters Plan Over 100 Grassroots Actions in All 80 California Assembly Districts

The California Nurses Association, Healthy California campaign, Our Revolution and #KnockEveryDoor will hold grassroots actions, including canvassing, on Oct. 14 and 15 in all 80 state Assembly districts, to engage residents with the Medicare-for-All movement and the campaign for SB 562. —California Nurses Association, 10/10/17 More »

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NNU Endorses Bryan Caforio, Medicare for All Advocate for Congress in Northern LA County District

NNU Endorses Bryan Caforio, Medicare for All Advocate for Congress in Northern LA County District

Citing his support for Medicare for all, National Nurses United (NNU) today announced its endorsement of Bryan Caforio for Congress in California’s 25th Congressional District, which covers parts of northern Los Angeles and parts of Ventura County. —California Nurses Association, 10/10/17 More »

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The barrier to single payer isn’t cost, it’s politics

The barrier to single payer isn’t cost, it’s politics

With Covered California announcing this week that health insurance premiums will jump an average of 12.5 percent next year, and possibly far more depending on actions in Washington, it’s worth repeating that a real cure for Californians, Senate Bill 562, is still achievable this year. —Deborah Burger, Special to The Bee, 08/03/17 More »

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California Health Care Fight May Show Democratic Party Future

California Health Care Fight May Show Democratic Party Future

Democrats gear up for the 2018 election, they confront big challenges: Polls in the last election showed a general electorate that deeply distrusted the party’s leaders, while new surveys show the Democratic base has lost faith in government — and now many swing voters believe Democrats aim to help the wealthy. —Lydia O’Neal And David Sirota, International Business Times, 07/12/17 More »

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Pollin: Why Single Payer, Now, Is For Real

Pollin: Why Single Payer, Now, Is For Real

IS A SINGLE-PAYER health care system workable in California? My short answer is “yes.” I reached that conclusion by writing a research study, along with co-authors James Heintz, Peter Arno, and Jeannette Wicks-Lim, of the Healthy California single payer bill. —Robert Pollin, Writing for The Intercept, 07/12/17 More »

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Heeding the Call: Nurses join AFL-CIO Humanitarian Mission to Aid Puerto Rico

Heeding the Call: Nurses join AFL-CIO Humanitarian Mission to Aid Puerto Rico

As great challenges and opportunities often do, the call came last Friday afternoon: The country’s largest labor organization, the AFL-CIO, was coordinating with the Puerto Rican Federation of Labor and the mayor of San Juan to send more than 200 healthcare, transportation, and construction volunteers on a two-week humanitarian mission to aid Puerto Rico. —Registered Nurse Response Network, 10/03/17 More »

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Until Elected Officials Champion Medicare for All, They Can Expect Nurses at Their Offices 

Until Elected Officials Champion Medicare for All, They Can Expect Nurses at Their Offices 

Healthy leadership is required to pass healthy legislation, and that makes for a healthy society. If our leaders don’t have the political will to fight for healthy legislation — Senator Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All Act, S.1804 being a prime example — then we are, as a country, fundamentally unwell. —Bonnie Castillo, NNU Director of Health & Safety, 09/23/17 More »

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