RN Testify Congressional Hearing Wednesday June 10 2009 Single-Payer Healthcare Reform Geri Jenkins

RN Leader Testifies at Congressional Hearing on Single-Payer Healthcare Reform


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Geri Jenkins, RN, co-president CNA/NNOC

A co-president of the nation's largest organization of registered nurses will testify Wednesday in the first official public hearing in Congress on single-payer healthcare reform. 

Geri Jenkins, RN, co-president of the 86,000-member California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, and a practicing RN at the University of California San Diego Medical Center, is expected to describe how the nation's healthcare meltdown is a "patient care crisis" and how single-payer reform best meets the goals identified by President Obama for reform of the broken system.

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