Nation's Largest Nurses Group: Senate Bill 'Could Actually Exacerbate The Health Care Crisis'

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Nation's Largest Nurses Group: Senate Bill 'Could Actually Exacerbate The Health Care Crisis'



National Nurses United, the nation's largest registered nurses union and professional organization, declared on Tuesday that the Senate health care bill gives away too much to insurance companies and "fails to meet the test of true health care reform."

"It is tragic to see the promise from Washington this year for genuine, comprehensive reform ground down to a seriously flawed bill that could actually exacerbate the health care crisis and financial insecurity for American families, and that cedes far too much additional power to the tyranny of a callous insurance industry," said co-president Karen Higgins in a statement.

"Sadly, we have ended up with legislation that fails to meet the test of true health care reform, guaranteeing high quality, cost effective care for all Americans, and instead are further locking into place a system that entrenches the chokehold of the profit-making insurance giants on our health. If this bill passes, the industry will become more powerful and could be beyond the reach of reform for generations," she added.

The group argued that the bill does not do enough to control prices considering it would force all Americans to buy insurance. They say many of the same flaws are in the House bill, and they don't expect the legislation to be improved in conference committee.

Here's the full statement: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/22/nations-largest-nurses-or_n_400765.html

[EFerrari]

1. K&R

[debbierlus]

2. Enslaving the people to the corporate profit leeches could make things worse?

:banghead:

[Patchuli]

3. Who ever unrec's a thread like this must work in ins industry!

:spank:

[branders seine]

4. they must be part of the whiny radical left...

damned nurses don't care about anyone but themselves...









:sarcasm:

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Now this is just absurd.

Listening to actual healthcare professionals about the effects the the healthcare bill?

That's just nuts.

[TwilightGardener]

6. Do they have health insurance? Prob'ly.

[State the Obvious]

7. The word "could" equals.....MAYBE yes..........MAYBE no

It is speculative. We do not have a definitive healthcare reform bill yet.

Let's let go of the "could", and "might", and "maybe" statements. (See what we have AFTER the House and Senate meet.)

We all need a few days of tranquility. :grouphug:

[rollingrock]

8. The disaster of the private health insurance system

doctors and nurses experience it on a daily basis.

[Laelth]

9. k&r for the truth, however depressing. n/t

Kill the bill.

Forcing people to buy insurance is no more the answer to a failed health care system than forcing people to buy houses is the solution to homelessness.

:dem:

-Laelth

[Sgent]

10. They are not the largest nurses group

the ANA has 10 times their membership and supports the senate bill.

[Uncle Joe]

11. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Amerigo Vespucci.