What do nurses think about healthcare reform?
Your doctor may or may not be in it for the money, but you know down deep in your heart that your nurse is in your corner if anyone is.
When a friend was in the hospital to assess whether or not he had had a heart attack, and a doctor too busy worrying about his golf game had him on a medication that could soon have killed him, the night nurse came on duty and challenged the doctor’s judgment. She probably saved his life.
These nurses just might save yours. Hear what they have to say about financing healthcare. It may give you a whole new outlook on the subject.
This is another brilliant Bill Moyers segment from May 2008 about the California Nurses Assciation and its members’s views on healthcare insurance and similar issues healthcare-related. Here you will find out about CheneyCare. Have you had any of that lately?
Aside from the fact that the administration in power has since changed, you’ll find it’s just as timely and informative as if it had been filmed today.
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For more on the subject, including a Harvard doctor’s viewpoint, click here.
And if you’re in the mood for a good read on the subject of healthcare, this August 29, 2005 New Yorker piece by Malcolm Gladwell (The Moral-Hazard Myth) seems uncannily timely. It explains why there’s so much resistance to concepts such as single-payer healthcare in this country, how insurance theory influences our thinking and why healthcare isn’t just another commodity. Read it here.
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