California Nurses Association

All The Health Insurance Companies’ Men Attack

Submitted by Carmen Balber on Wed, 06/21/2017 - 08:10

Whenever health insurance companies face real political pressure they know it’s best to change the messenger. Their executives and spokespeople clam up and turn to paid surrogates who attack reformers in order to take the public’s eye off the ball: health industry price gouging.
 
With the heat turning up nationally for California single payer proposal Senate Bill 562 (Lara),  which threatens to upend industry profiteering, the same paid attack dogs who came out against regulating skyrocketing health insurance premiums are back.
 

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Single Payer Takes a Step Forward

Submitted by Connor Finney on Thu, 04/27/2017 - 11:58

Late Wednesday afternoon, the Senate Health Committee voted decisively to move S.B. 562 to the floor of the Senate.  The Healthy California Act would establish a single-payer, Medicare-for-all system in the state, ensuring that all Californians have access to affordable healthcare.  The bill was proposed by Senator Toni Atkins and Senator Ricardo Lara as well as aided by the support of the California Nurses Association, physicians, and a coalition of progressive organizations.

Will CA Attorney General Stand With Healthcare Workers And Patients Or a Hedge Fund?

Submitted by Carmen Balber on Tue, 10/13/2015 - 16:20
California Attorney General Kamala Harris will soon have to decide if she is on the side of patients and healthcare workers or a New York hedge fund looking to make easy money with little risk by buying six financially-struggling Catholic hospitals. 
 

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Cushy Corporate Alliances Don't Cushion Downfall of Top SEIU Official

Submitted by Jamie Court on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 10:03

In the labor movement, there are two kinds of leaders -- those who fight big corporations, and those who collaborate with them. The poster child for the collaborators just had half his membership taken away.

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Fallout After Attorney General Decision on Daughters of Charity Health System

Submitted by Carmen Balber on Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:12

After Attorney General Kamala Harris imposed conditions that a buyer, Prime Healthcare, declined to agree to on the sale of troubled Daughters of Charity Health System, supporters of her decision said other buyers would save all of the hospitals and services. But so far, no buyers have emerged, and the fallout has begun.
 

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Will State Officials Racing For Boxer's Seat Be Bold or Weaker?

Submitted by Jamie Court on Thu, 01/08/2015 - 14:02

The announcement by Senator Boxer, a true champion of the underdog (watch her Rage for Justice speech), that she will not run for the Senate in 2016 will likely make a lot of other state officials rethink how they do their jobs. It's a lot like the moves you make playing musical chairs to make sure the music doesn't run out without you getting a seat.

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