Reply #1: Single-payer universal [View All]

[NC_Nurse]

is how they should go, but it won't happen.Just think how that would free up people to change jobs and in the end save businesses huge $. Except of course for the current health insurance companies and drug companies who are making such a handsome profit from today's failing system.

Speaking selfishly, they also need a platform that includes a policy on the nursing shortage that isn't just about increasing funding for education, but is concerned with WHY people leave this profession in DROVES! Howard Dean was the only candidate I know of who had a coherent policy on Nursing and now he's out.

People are under the mistaken impression that the doctor will be the one between them and an early demise....that is rarely the case. It's the nurse who monitors you 95% of the time in a hospital setting; which is pretty hard to do when you have to high a patient load, mandatory overtime, low wages, etc.