Posted on 07/16/2009 1:39:42 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
President Barack Obama on Wednesday added nurses to the list of lobby groups supporting a national health care overhaul.
The president made his remarks in the Rose Garden accompanied by nurses, as well as Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) and Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), on the day that a Senate committee released a companion bill to the House measure.
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More members of the corrupt unions join in with Odumbo to try and destroy America.
And you have to wonder what BO promised them (which they may or may not get when the dust settles.)
I wonder what nurses he has been talking to. A bunch of nurses I work with passionately oppose this.
Hmmmm. I have 3 nurses in the family and none of them support govt healthcare.
Oh wait. It’s the Nurse’s Association not actual nurses. Never mind.
Now, all industries see the future as: let the government pay your salary or face expulsion/regulation to put you on the street.
Fewer than 20 percent of nurses are unionized.
Nurses are doing OK under the present system - hospital nurses are making 40-60K, and supervisors are making 70-120K.
The only people that are going to make out under Obama’s plan are the union management, who will be paid off big-time.
The nurses for the County hospitals that are members of Public Employee Unions here in CA are all for it of course.
Most nurses belong to a union (ANA, SEIU, etc.) - and their unions have never given a flying rats rear-end what their constituents think. They just want their dues for political action.
Doesn’t the nurses union understand that when they talk “cuts” they are talking about their jobs too?
I wish that were the case.
Another paid group of nurses.
From the article:
At the announcement with Obama were Becky Patton, president of the American Nurses Association, representing 2.9 million nurses; Dr. Mary Wakefield, administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration at the Department of Health and Human Services, the administration’s highest ranking nurse; Keisha Walker, an RN, currently a senior research nurse at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health; and Dr. Rebecca Wiseman, nurse and assistant professor of adult health at the University of Maryland School of Nursing.
Apparently he's talking to union officials and academics. We hardly needed a news release to inform us of support from those two quarters!
But of course Boy King and the Morons of the Roundtable don’t care about the 80% that aren’t union. Nor do they care what that 80% think.
It is a tiny minority of nurses who join those organizations and I would bet money that none of them have been anywhere close to actual patient care for at least 10 years.
Many real nurses have run into the byzantine details of Medicare and Medicaid treatment and reimbursement schedules and other arcane stipulations that do not serve the patients well.
These nurses know they don’t want their family’s healthcare in the hands of the government.
I have to disagree there. Most nurses do not belong to a union. It depends on where you live. I can speak for the two large states in which I’ve been licensed to practice.
Also, the ANA is not a union.
My wife is a nurse and doesn’t belong to a union. I live in Arizona, so I’ve yet to meet a unionized nurse.
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