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Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy, even for those with insurance. How can we fix a system that tends to overcharge and what recourse do patients have?

Originally aired on March 6, 2013 on HuffPost Live
Hosted by:

Marc Lamont Hill

Sylvia’s children are making decisions without consulting her, and she’s asked Mary Maxwell to help. Mary’s very matter-of-fact speech to the children serves as an excellent (and humorous) example of how to put your foot down.

Every doctor makes mistakes. But, says physician Brian Goldman, medicine’s culture of denial (and shame) keeps doctors from ever talking about those mistakes, or using them to learn and improve. Telling stories from his own long practice, he calls on doctors to start talking about being wrong.

For California’s Future: Vote YES on Proposition 30!

California nurses, teachers, and responsible business individuals paid a visit to the posh St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco to shine a spotlight on the secretive wealthy donors who are bankrolling the campaign to defeat Proposition 30.

The Tuesday action will include a yacht, SOS life rings, and actors playing the role of the four mega-rich venture capitalists who recently formed a committee deceptively named “Californians for Reforms and Jobs Not Taxes Campaign” to defeat Proposition 30 on the November ballot.

Committee members include Floyd Kvamme, GOP donor and part of a committee fined by the Federal Elections Committee after the 2004 election; David Marquardt and Mark Stevens, venture capitalist donors to Mitt Romney and George W. Bush; and John Cox, fringe candidate for president in 2008, whose PAC has taken money from Phillip Morris.

“These amateur multimillionaires are playing with our state’s future like they play with their yachts and other toys,” said Malinda Markowitz, RN, and a co-president of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United. “Why are they funneling hordes of cash against a campaign to protect our schools, our healthcare safety net, and other vital California services simply to avoid paying a little more of their fair share?”

“For me, an extra 2 percent or 3 percent in taxes is not going to make a bit of difference in the way that I live,” said Frank Jernigan, a retired Google software engineer and member of the Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength. “But by bringing billions of dollars in new revenues to California for public schools and safety, Prop. 30 will make a tremendous difference in the lives of many.”

Find out more at:

www.nationalnursesunited.org

Carolyn is just one of the people nurses and the Campaign for a Healthy California has talked to about healthcare. Carolyn knew she was having a heart attack but was afraid to go to the hospital. She thought it might be better to die than to saddle her sons with the burden of her medical bills. Fortunately she survived, but Caroline is 135,000 dollars in debt to health “care”.

The audience at our Town Hall meeting to discuss Medicare for All was distressed by Carolyn’s story, but not entirely shocked. Nurses are hearing many of these kinds of stories as we travel through California asking the public to “Tell Us Where it Hurts.”

Find out more including the bus tour schedule here:

www.NursesHealAmerica.org

Nurses and the Campaign for a Healthy California are traveling in a bus to promote Medicare for All. Along the way we are doing health screenings in the communities we visit. We’re asking the public to “Tell Us Where It Hurts” with regard to their healthcare.

Here Joan Potts and Myra DeTate tell us about their struggle to obtain health care. Interviews are part of the Campaign for a Healthy California and Nurses Campaign to Heal America.

Get the full bus tour schedule at: www.NursesHealAmerica.org

Across the country and throughout California, people are being denied healthcare. People have lost their homes, their retirement, even their lives due to healthcare costs and lack of care. Now Californians are saying enough is enough.

Some people thought the Affordable Care Act, also known as Healthcare Reform, would solve the problem. But the ACA continues the system of profit-based care and would force people to buy insurance without controls on insurance costs.

Now California has the opportunity to set the standard of care for our country by adopting a single payer Medicare for all model of healthcare. The Campaign for a Healthy California (CHC) believes everyone has a right to care. Join students, nurses, doctors, seniors, faith-based communities, small businesspeople, people of all backgrounds and ethnicities as we come together in CHC for a better California, and a healthy tomorrow.

Find out more at:
www.healthycaliforniacampaign.org

You can listen to more Lynn Ruth on Nurse Talk’s In My Day segment.

To watch Henry—an elderly man who has spent over ten years in a nursing home, barely able to answer yes or no questions—come alive when listening to music from his past is a reminder of the powerful, inspiring, and affecting power of music. Read more of the original article, Man in Nursing Home ‘Awakens’ When Listening to Music From His Past by AYLIN ZAFAR at Time Newsfeed.

“Shania becomes depressed and has thoughts of suicide after being bullied and going off her medication. She gets help from her sister, Sydney, her mother, counseling and love and help from her family. Her true story emphasizes that help is available and help works for depression and suicide prevention.”
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK or 273-8255

Get the Suicide Prevention App or visit the web site: www.mhatexas.org/ask/

You can help prevent suicide in your community by knowing how to ask about suicide, and knowing where to get help. Download the free suicide prevention iPhone App today, ASK ! Search under suicide prevention in App Store to get the ASK! about suicide App to save a life with warning signs, how to ask and hotlines.

Project Coordinator/Producer:
Merily Keller, Texas Suicide Prevention Council — TexasSuicidePrevention.org
Mary Ellen Nudd, Mental Health America of Texas — Mhatexas.org

Creative Direction: Casey McPherson, Davis Niendorff — Mhatexas.org

Director: Jason Marlow

Cinematographer: Todd Campbell

Music: Karl Snyder “Valentine’s Wisdom”
courtesy of Third Side Music

****Not all videos on the internet about suicide prevention promote healthy responses and safe behavior.**** These videos follow best practice guidelines as outlined by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and Mental Health America of Texas. Our goal is to promote both in our continuing effort to prevent suicide across all demographics, and especially among youth in Texas.

This video was developed under contract number 2010-034469 from the Texas Department of State Health Services(DSHS) to Mental Health America of Texas(MHAT). The views, policies, and opinions expressed are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect those of the Texas Department of State Health Services or Mental Health America of Texas; nor do pictures or mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by TDSHS or MHAT.

Resources and information a range of common conditions, http://www.myfavouritemedicine.com

A Doctor-Professor answers the old question “What is the single best thing we can do for our health” in a completely new way. Dr. Mike Evans is founder of the Health Design Lab at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto, and a staff physician at St. Michael’s Hospital.

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Conceived, written, and presented by Dr. Mike Evans
Illustrated by Liisa Sorsa
Produced, directed, and filmed by Nick De Pencier
Picture and sound edit by David Schmidt
Gaffer, Martin Wojtunik
Whiteboard construction by James Vanderkleyn
Production assistant, Chris Niesing
©2011 Michael Evans and Mercury Films Inc.

Posted on YouTube by Debbie Day, she says, “This is a song I wrote for a church talent show. My roommate and I got to perform it at our college’s “guitars unplugged” performance. It was lots of fun! By the way, we really are registered nurses. Please, tell me what ya think!”

Lyrics: You got a scratch and you need help stat! Mmm boy, we got a bandaid that’ll fix it like that! You’ve been complaining of that aching in your tummy, well we’ve got some tums—that even taste yummy.

If you’ve got a sprain, hey look I’ve got some ice and if you need some c-p-r, my lips, they taste so nice,
And if you’ve got a cold despite everything you’ve tried, well give you a shot, right in your back side.
If you’re? feeling down, cause your achin’ in your neck, we’ll stick you with an IV once or twice, what the heck!
We are caring, here have a laxative. We are sharing, bed pans are superlative!

We’ve got lots of drugs we’re happy to provide, their effects will take you on a magic carpet ride. A whole new world!

Just one little poke and you’ll float far far away, here comes a little pinch, oh? wups! I missed the vein, oh well!
We are caring, if you start to choke, we are sharing, we’ll shove a tube down your throat…

So next time that you’re sick and you don’t know what’s wrong, we can probe your membranes with a cold, sharp, metal prong

And you’ll know? that we really truly care, so come and be our patient if you dare.
So come and be our patient if you dare!

We like your style Theresa Garnero, APRN-BC-ADM, MSN, CDE
(Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Board Certified in Advanced Diabetes Management, Master of Science in Nursing, Certified Diabetes Educator) Theresa is founder and executive director of DOD (and a fine dancer). Learn more about Dance Out Diabetes at www.danceoutdiabetes.org.

Originally posted at the Washington Post’s WonkBlog.

Other rich countries have universal health care. FRONTLINE teams up with T.R. Reid, a veteran foreign correspondent for “The Washington Post,”   in “Sick Around the World,” to find out how five other capitalist democracies–United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland–deliver health care and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures.

Watch the whole show online at http://www.pbs.org/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/ Share widely.

More than three million embattled British nurses and other public employees were on strike (11/30/2011) to protest attacks by the British government on pensions and retirement security.

Like their U.S. counterparts, British officials want to slash public worker pensions to cut public deficits — even though, like Social Security in the U.S., British pension funds are financially sound.

As the 19 unions, representing nurses, other healthcare workers, teachers, and other public employees say, the government position is “pay more, work longer, get less.”

“These plans are just a cynical move to raise £4 billion to pay down the deficit caused by the bankers. Instead of raiding the pensions of hard working public service workers, why not impose a tiny transaction tax on the banks instead — this would raise £20 billion a year?”

— Karen Jennings, assistant general secretary of UNISON, which represents tens of thousands of nurses and other healthcare worker.

In the U.S., National Nurses United is leading the call for a financial transaction tax on Wall Street. The tax would tax Wall Street to heal Main Street. Similar taxes are being proposed by workers around the world. Nurses are rallied to show their support for British nurses and workers whose pensions are in jeopardy.

Find out more at: www.mainstreetcontract.org

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And here’s a powerful video that shows nurses getting arrested early Sunday morning. At the 3:40-minute mark, you see the nurses who were the last ones arrested. You also can hear the crowd chanting, “NNU! We love you!”

New aid stations have been set up on San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington DC. You can volunteer to help.

Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren spoke at the Massachusetts Nurses Association convention this week. “Washington right now works for those who have already made it. . . . It doesn’t work for ordinary families. It doesn’t work for small businesses,” she says. “We have a choice to make ….It’s really a choice about which side do you stand on.” –From the Massachuestts Nurses Association

Kaiser Mental Health Caregivers Speak Up for Patients from Leighton Woodhouse on Vimeo.

Please sign every petition, send emails and make phone calls to Congress-Tell them to NOT make cuts to social security, Medicare and Medicaid. Instead, close tax loopholes and stop Bush tax cuts. Here’s how to find your representatives: www.contactingthecongress.org.

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What are YOU waiting for? The American Health Care Act of 2011, sponsored by Senators Sanders and McDermott, will make universal health care a reality. Support the American Health Care Act;SB 915, HR 2100.

The wait is over when we want it to be.

Find out more at www.nationalnursesunited.org

In this episode of In Range, host Cameron Harris introduces both himself and the podcast.

You can find Cameron’s podcast empire at www.HarwoodPodcast.com