Guaranteed Healthcare

All across the nation, our allies in the fight to extend a progressively financed, single standard of high quality care for all are holding events to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Medicare. Four more than four decades, Medicare has helped millions of Americans protect their health and their wealth during retirement and during disability – the poverty level among the elderly dropped significantly in the years following the passage of Medicare. (READ MORE and TAKE ACTION!)

To check out what some of those allies are doing, visit this calendar provided by Healthcare-Now.

Nurses know that protecting and improving Medicare and Social Security is the right way to go and that any attempt to raise the retirement age, cut benefits or in any other way diminish these social insurance programs would be tragic for their patients and for their own families and futures. Social Security will celebrate its 75th anniversary on August 14th, 2010, and we hope you’ll join us in actions being held around the country in support of the AFL-CIO position to preserve and protect Social Security as part of sound economic policy for all working Americans. Save the date now, and watch your email for information on events you may wish to attend.

Calls to your Congressional members would be a great idea to reinforce that RNs will vote their values and those values include preserving Social Security and Medicare. Click here to find your member of Congress and their phone number.

Also read:

Rose Ann DeMoro Wants Hospitals to Scream
Business Week 07/22/10

Have a wonderful August, and watch for addional action alerts on this issue and others.

Thank you!