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FEATURES
10 Mending the Net
Though public healthcare facilities bear the brunt of caring for
society's neediest, many are at risk of extinction due to funding cuts
and privatization. Public-sector nurses gather to strategize how
to turn this situation around.
14 System Failure
Three-year-old Thomas Wilkes is getting kicked off his family's
health insurance plan because the insurer thinks his hemophilia
treatment is too costly. He's living proof that the time has come
to create a healthcare system for people, not for profit.
Text by Lucia Hwang; photos by Jon Orlando
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DEPARTMENTS
4 News Briefs
Texas ratio bill introduced; a pending federal bill would help workers
form a union if they simply collect a majority of authorization cards;
union endorsers of HR 676, the national health insurance bill; a plan to
establish single-payer health insurance, SB 840, has been reintroduced
in California; in a recent trip to the Philippines, CNA/NNOC Vice
President Zenei Triunfo-Cortez, RN educated nursing students there
about the realities of working abroad; wrap-up news about ratio bills
in Illinois and Maine, and advocacy for HR 676 in Missouri.
9 Emergency Measures
Through a series of national workshops, our RN Response Network
is mobilizing RNs to tackle the root causes of our healthcare crisis.
By Rose Ann DeMoro
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MARCH 2007
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