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Contents FEATURES 12 Moving Out Developing nations are training but quickly losing their nurses to other countries when they can least afford to. Their healthcare infrastructures are crumbling as a result. What's the solution to the global crisis of nurse migration? By Carl Bloice and Conn Hallinan 18 For America's Sake Journalist and commentator Bill Moyers implores us to spread the vision of a country that leaves no one out. 12 DEPARTMENTS 4 News Briefs Texas RNs step up for the fight for staffing ratios; Dr. Quentin Young, national coordinator for Physicians for a National Health Program, talks to us about why single-payer national health insurance is simply good medicine; Illinois RNs stage mock funeral for clinic closures; CNA/NNOC executive director named to list of 25 most powerful women in healthcare; the national scandal over shoddy healthcare for veterans is just symptomatic of the administration's pattern of neglect, inadequate funding, and privatization of our system; a review of a new documentary about consumer crusader Ralph Nader; in his new book, The Seventeen Traditions, Ralph Nader shares the family values that forged the consumer advocate we know today; Sutter nurses meet and prepare to bargain. 11 Whose Life Doesn't Count? Why settling for gradual healthcare reforms hasn't gotten us anywhere and still won't. By Rose Ann DeMoro 18 on the cover: Sutter RN bargaining team members mean business. Not all bargaining team members are shown, but the ones depicted here are (left to right) RNs Janet Urman, Lee Sanor, Debbie Colmar, Mary Michelucci, Jonica Brooks, Efren Garza, Kris Dougan, Janet Braillard, Suzanne Fleeger, Sharon Bernard, and Tina Simon. Photograph by Jaclyn Higgs. APRIL 2007 W W W. C A L N U R S E S . O R G REGISTERED NURSE 3