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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The percentages I have seen range from 10 percent (academic essay) to 16.5 percent (Reuters). The only source I have seen that puts the rate of nurse unionization at 20 percent is the SEIU, which I do not trust.
Yes, I meant “CNA, SEIU, etc.”
Let them eat beans!
Not this nurse! I wish they wouldnt try to speak for all of us!
Please do not think that RNs support this. They know better. It is the union leaders who are there with The One
Nurses are really politcally stupid.
Well....frankly, I question the intelligence of any degreed professional who leaves their terms of employment in the hands of some union lackey from downtown.
Not this Nurse!
This is all orchestrated. The AMA comes out for the doctors and the politburo has a similar ceremony with nurses. Timing is easy to see here.
Yeah well the CNA is the California Nurses Association and SEIU does NOT represent RNs mostly it represents assistants and vocational ( practical) nurses
Not true.
The percentage of actual physicians who belong to the AMA is really small too. Most of them are too busy taking care of patients and trying to keep their businesses afloat for that self-important posturing.
Nevertheless, all tools of the Obama administration. And, they are the only ones with a voice that elected officials will hear.
Not true. Just as we individual citizens contacted our congress critters to stop legislation in the past, it is imperative that we do so again.
Can’t wait for my wife to see this post, she may differ with you. She’s been an RN since 1974.
I’ll bet she can spell politically too. ;-)
She’s been working at the VA for 23 or 24 years now, I can assure you she’s got an opinion on this one.
Promised them? Shirley ewe jest? This administration robbed the treasury of 3 trillion dollars that have not been accounted for.
That's $3,000,000,000,000!!!
He now has the money to buy whatever support he needs, including his standing civilian army that he promised. As powerful and as fell-funded as the U.S. Military. With that much cash, even more so.
Get ready. The fun is about to begin.
ask her how many politically stupid nurses work with her.
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