Vermont Clears Another Hurdle; Is California’s SB 810 In Trouble?
It looks like California and Vermont could go on two different trajectories in America’s battle for healthcare equality. On Tuesday, the Vermont Senate approved by 21-9 health reform legislation that would create a single payer system in the state. Once the bill is reconciled by […]
2011 Uninsured Death Tolls
Casey and Dan open the show this week by announcing the 2011 uninsured death tolls for California and the U.S. —95 for the state and 800 and county for the nation and counting. These numbers have a way of bringing home the sobering fact that […]
Donna Smith and Cameron Harris | Show 308
Casey and Dan rap with Donna Smith about the midterm elections. What now? What later? What is the future of health care reform and what can we do to keep the drum beating for single payer health-care? It looks as if it will happen state […]
Andrew McGuire and Deborah Burger | Show 300
Its back to school! We have no idea why we started with that because it has nothing to do with he show coming up but it does fit in with the season. Hey…we do have a great show coming up. This week we host Andrew […]
Talking with Andrew McGuire | Show 232
Casey and Dan speak with Andrew McGuire the Executive Director of California One Care. Andrew talks about the founding coalition and the campaign that is under way to pass SB 810, State Senator Mark Leno’s legislation for Single Payer Health Insurance for ALL Californians….plus our RN Hero feature, Tim Thomas, RN plus, Casey and Dan’s usual shenanigans.READ MORE…
Casey Interviews Michael Lighty, CNA Director of Public Policy | Show 221
Michael Lighty, the Director of Public Policy for the California Nurses Association, joins Casey to speak about healthcare reform and advocating for single-payer bills state-by-state. If you think real healthcare reform is important, you won’t want to miss his strategy. Click here to listen to the segment by going to the Nurse Talk CNA On Demand page. Read more…
Present at the Birth: The National Nurses Movement by Chico David RN
Present at the Birth: The National Nurses Movementby Chico David, RNI’m writing from Phoenix Arizona where I just spent the morning with hundreds of nurses from around the country finalizing the creation of the new nurses union that will transform health care in America: National […]
I Hope and Pray for Single-Payer Health Care
I hope and pray that this country wises up and gets single payer health care someday. But, I’m not going to hold my breath. –Listener, Paulette K.