Nurses United for Healthcare

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The California Nurses Association and other nurses' unions were some of the strongets voices for real healthcare reform, continuing to call for single-payer Medicare for All even now. But with the birth of the new National Nurses United, the nurses are fighting battles on all fronts for healthcare--from a strike at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia to struggles with Massachusetts' program.

Joining us from Boston to talk about the nurses' union, patient care, and what's next after this healthcare bill is Karen Higgins, co-president of National Nurses United, who says that any fight on behalf of patients is their fight.

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1. This is going on in the State that was used to shape the health care law President Obama

just signed into law... Exchanges without public option gave insurance co. their monopoly. There is a reason that these nurses are being gaged. Nurses are the liaisons for the patients and the monopoly system doesn't want nurses to have the authority to to do their job, but wants them to take the responsibility when something goes wrong...