Guaranteed Healthcare

Lost in the increasingly dysfunctional healthcare reform debate over phony death books and how much protection money must be paid to the drug and insurance industries to soften their opposition, a major public health tsunami is about to slam the U.S.

It's name is H1N1. OK, not exactly an unreported story, but perhaps under reported. Even with a President's task force report Monday that concluded:

Advocate for Ratio Law in Texas- Here is how:

After operating nearly a century as a public safety net, Grady Health System, one of the nation's largest public health systems which includes the largest hospital in Georgia, was privatized this May. Rita Valenti, a Grady RN and NNOC member, explains in her story, which was first published in the June issue of Registered Nurse, how corporate interests swooped in on an institution that has been systematically starved of the funds needed to care for the lowest-income Georgians. What happened to Grady stands in stark contrast to the Cook County Bureau of Health Services in Chicago, whose nurses are represented by CNA/NNOC. There, the RNs and allies, through their collective power and influence, successfully lobbied for more independent oversight of the system without relinquishing public control and the public mission.

A broken healthcare system and my journey through it.