National Nurses Movement is Leading Proponent for Single-Payer Healthcare
Reforms - 'Medicare for All'
OAKLAND, Calif., May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Turning their camera on the
fastest-growing union in America -- and the nation's largest union of RNs
-- Bill Moyers' Journal will feature the California Nurses
Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee's fight for guaranteed,
single-payer healthcare in an episode scheduled to air this Friday at 9
p.m. EDT (check local listings at
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html).
The airing comes as CNA/NNOC, and its allies in the Leadership
Conference for Guaranteed Healthcare, prepare for a busy summer of
healthcare organizing that includes a National Day of Action Against Health
Insurance Corporations on June 19th, with a major rally outside a
convention by the industry group AHIP (America's Health Insurance Plans) in
San Francisco. (For more information, visit
http://www.GuaranteedHealthcare.org.)
CNA/NNOC formed the Conference, along with Physicians for a National
Health Program, Healthcare Now!, and Progressive Democrats of America, to
advocate for the kind of guaranteed healthcare on the single-payer model
that is succeeding in nearly every other industrialized democracy. The
public -- and healthcare experts -- has repeatedly expressed support for
this kind of "Medicare for All" reform, but politicians have been slow to
catch up.
CNA/NNOC and fellow single-payer supporters have engaged in a wide
variety of innovative organizing tactics in support of their healthcare
proposals, including television ads targeted to all Presidential candidates
and a series of print ads calling for all Americans to receive the same
medical access as Vice President Dick Cheney. "There shouldn't be a double
standard," says Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of CNA/NNOC, on the
show. "We, as the public, pay for Dick Cheney's care ... why is the
government not providing the same type of care to all Americans?"
CNA/NNOC's efforts have been supported by its rapid growth, and the
creation at long last of a national nurses' movement. CNA/NNOC now
represents over 80,000 RNs in all 50 states. For more information, visit
http://www.CalNurses.org.
SOURCE California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing
Committee
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Related links:
http://www.calnurses.org
CONTACT:
Shum Preston, +1-510-273-2276, or Chuck
Idelson, +1-415-559-8991, both of California Nurses
Association-National Nurses Organizing Committee
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