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International Nurse News Round-Up

See a collection of links to news stories about nurses in other nations, and how they are advocating for their patients.

Global Nurses United

August 14, 2015

Why the Nation's Nurses are Supporting Bernie Sanders for President

Bernie Sanders aligns perfectly with nurses on the most critical problems facing our nation, from income inequality to guaranteeing healthcare to all to holding Wall Street and corporations to account to opening the doors to college education for everyone to racial justice to the climate crisis.

RoseAnn DeMoro writing for The Huffington Post

August 12, 2015

Redwood Memorial nurses vote to join California Nurses Association

Registered nurses at the Redwood Memorial Hospital in Fortuna voted Monday to join the California Nurses Association. According to a California Nurses Association press release, the union is part of the nation’s largest organization of registered nurses, National Nurses United.

The Times-Standard

August 12, 2015

Bernie Sanders picks up first major labor endorsement

Bernie Sanders picked up his first major labor endorsement from the nation's largest organization of nurses, reflecting the Vermont senator's appeal among unions in his challenge to Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Associated Press, via Chicago Tribune

August 11, 2015

Bernie Sanders gets endorsement of big nurses union

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday became more than an afterthought to front-runner rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as the 185,000-member National Nurses United, the nation’s largest female-dominated labor union, announced its endorsement.

Carla Marinucci, The San Francisco Chronicle

August 11, 2015

Remarks by Bernie Sanders at National Nurses United's Endorsement

Let me begin by thanking RoseAnn DeMoro, and the 185,000 members of National Nurses United, for providing high quality healthcare to the American people. I am honored to have the support of the largest nurse’s union in this country!

berniesanders.com

August 10, 2015

Poll: ObamaCare enrollees less satisfied with insurance plans

The poll from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, the research arm of the consulting firm, finds that 30 percent of people with insurance through ObamaCare’s marketplaces are satisfied with their plans. That compares with 42 percent satisfaction from people with employer-sponsored plans, 48 percent with Medicaid and 58 percent with Medicare.

Peter Sullivan, The Hill

August 3, 2015

Higher Medicaid Expansion Enrollment Means Not Only Greater Coverage, But Also State Savings

About half the states that have expanded Medicaid as part of health reform have enrolled more people than they expected, generating bigger health coverage gains but also prompting fears among some policymakers that states will thus bear higher-than-expected future costs.

Jesse Cross-Call, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

August 3, 2015

International Nurse News Round-Up

See a collection of links to news stories about nurses in other nations, and how they are advocating for their patients.

Global Nurses United

July 31, 2015

Massachusetts Nurses Push for Workplace Violence bill

Union President Donna Kelly-Williams and several other members are testifying Tuesday at a Massachusetts state hearing on the bill. Elizabeth Dalton, a nurse in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, will testify about her experience dealing with the irate father of a dying patient who threatened her with a knife.

Adam Rubenfire, Modern Healthcare

July 22, 2015