Guaranteed Healthcare

Families making tough decisions about babies and birthing and living the American dream as the for-profit healthcare system gobbles up personal choice and freedom.

'Tis the season!  And President Bush delivered the equivalent of a lump of coal to the nation's children.  You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.  In vetoing the SCHIP legislation (for the second time in as many months), Bush stated, " it moves our country's health care system in the wrong direction."  Perhaps the problem is with the President's moral compass...

Donna Smith from Sicko and a wide coalition of healthcare activists are on a national road show, visiting towns large and small to organize for guaranteed healthcare.  I’ve posted her latest blog below.  You can find out more here.

You may also want to check this out: Nevada Nurses are organizing with NNOC, a victory for patients *and* nurses!

All Tracy Pierce wanted was to be given a chance to fight his cancer. His insurance coverage wouldn’t even give him that.

There’s an increased focus on medical bankruptcy at the federal level, while states across the country are looking into how they can guarantee healthcare for their residents. All this and more in today's Guaranteed Healthcare Update!

A major healthcare union is getting behind single-payer, while Arnold Schwarzenegger is pushing its exact opposite in California. 

of the need for some politicians to start paying an electoral price for not taking this crisis seriously.

Now you don't have to have seen SiCKO to know that if there is one area of human endeavor where private enterprise doesn't work, it's health care. Consider the private, profit-making, insurance industry that Bush is so determined to defend. What "innovations" has it produced? The deductible, the co-pay, and the pre-existing condition are the only ones that leap to mind.

Nurses from across the country, actually the world, are on a bus tour promoting "Scrubs for SiCKO" a campaign to recruit a nurse or doctor to each of the movie's 3,000 opening night screens.  These healthcare providers--many in custom red scrubs--will work to maximize the impact SiCKO has on our political and social debates about how to finally guarantee healthcare and get private insurance corporations out of our healthcare system.   Along the way, an unprecedented coalition of activists nurses, many from the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, as well as a dozen other nurses groups, is coming together to demand real healthcare reform now. Below is the third report from the tour, co-written by a number of nurses as they travelled to Chicago and New Hampshire last week.  This stretch was incredibly important for we went from the belly of the beast to the belly of the beast...that is, from Chicago's national HQ for Blue Cross/Blue Shield to the epicenter of the Presidential race in Manchester.   

For more information, please visit www.GuaranteedHealthcare.org/Sicko and sign up!

Nurses take their work very seriously but they also love to have fun as you'll see in this creative new YouTube show dubbed "ACCESS HEALTHCARE" which borrows a few ideas from "Access Hollywood," "ET," "Extra," and the like. Go backstage with Michael Moore, experience the buzz around his new movie SiCKO, see the latest RN fashions, and JOIN the movement for guaranteed healthcare in America.

Click here to see the first edition of "ACCESS HEALTHCARE" on YouTube and join us June 29th

Yes I timed it. After yesterday's national debut of SiCKO, 1,000 nurses from the California Nurses Association and across the country rose as one, roared, and continued roaring for 8 full minutes.  I had goosebumps and tears in my eyes at the same time, and so did everyone else in the theater. It was an emotional conclusion to a historic day: the campaign kick off for an extraordinary month of health care activism that aims to cure our nation of the health insurance corporations who are doing so much damage to all of us.   The media, nurses and doctors, Moore, and healthcare activists gathered together because this—-this-—is our opportunity to finally change the healthcare system in this country.  We'll recap what happened and plans going forward below… 

Cross-posted at the [http://www.GuaranteedHealthcare.org/blog National Nurses Organizing Committee’s] Breakroom Blog, as we organize to make 2007 the Year of GUARANTEED Healthcare--thanks to SiCKO.