Guaranteed Healthcare

"Meanwhile, businesses and individuals are dropping coverage in the wake of higher insurance premiums."

I'm a cardiac rehab nurse at a mid-sized community hospital in Northrn California,  Today was just another day at work, but a day that kept bringing me face to face with the reality of how our lack of real healthcare hurts ordinary folks

In this essay, CNA/NNOC Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro spotlights a way that California can jumpstart the single-payer movement for the entire country: California legislators, the majority of whom have already voted in support of establishing single-payer for the state, should organize the two-thirds vote needed to override Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's likely veto of similar legislation this year.

A broken healthcare system and my journey through it.

Juanita Anderson, a retiree living in Los Angeles, never imagined that in her later years she would suffer from an incurable disease, nor that she'd be so afraid of losing her healthcare benefits. Even with retiree healthcare, she spends almost all her financial resources on managing her disease. Yet she knows life would be even worse if she lost her retiree health -- a very real possibility for millions of Americans as companies cut costs by reneging on promises to former employees. Check out Anderson's story as published in the April 2008 issue of Registered Nurse magazine.