Guaranteed Healthcare

Did the nurses win a presidential debate?  The Washington Post thinks so.  We'll take a look at this and more in the Breakroom blog.

I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that the Washington Post called our little union, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, the “winners” of Sunday’s Presidential debate for our pro-guaranteed healthcare reform ads we ran and the National Journal lauded the ads for returning the problem of health insurance to the primary.  It’s not going to go away, and whoever the Democratic candidate is will have to decide: are you with insurers or patients (and labor)?
 
Around the webs, Cervantes looks at the economic argument for guaranteeing healthcare with single-payer financing, while In These Times looks at the momentum in Wisconsin for such a program.

Meanwhile, David Sirota notes the Bush administration threatens to retaliate against middle-class families who use government-sponsored healthcare through the S-Chip program.

And America’s war on Indians continues, this time through inadequate healthcare.

Finally, an editorialist at the San Jose Mercury News wonders how long we have to wait for single-payer?