<http://www.calnurses.org> For Immediate Release May 11, 2009 Contact: Shum Preston, 510-273-2276 or Chuck Idelson, 415-559-8991
Nurses and Doctors Call for "Florence Nightingale Day Protest" Against Max Baucus and Health Insurers: May 12 Baucus Again Calls Senate Finance Hearing Without Information on "The Nurses' and Doctors' Plan" for Healthcare Reform: Single-Payer Healthcare What: Activist, registered nurses, and physicians are calling for a "Florence Nightingale Day Protest" against Sen. Max Baucus and his Senate Finance Committee hearings on healthcare. The hearings include representation from health insurers-but not from the majority of the nation's RNs and MDs, who support the kind of single-payer healthcare financing proven successful in Europe, Canada, and Asia. When: Tuesday, May 12, 10:00 a.m. - the 189th anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birthday Where: Outside Dirksen Senate Office Building, 1st St. @ Constitution Ave., Washington, D.C. Who: The protests are called by activist caregivers and patients from the Leadership Conference on Guaranteed Healthcare, including the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, and Physicians for a National Health Program Why: May 12 is Florence Nightingale's Birthday - an opportunity to honor her advocacy of healthcare by protesting Congressional hearings that have been stacked in favor of the big insurance companies while silencing the voices of nurses and doctors who favor guaranteed healthcare, as in a single-payer, expanded Medicare-for-all system with a single standard of quality care. The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee is asking nurses and doctors in the region to attend these hearings "and support the guaranteed, single-payer healthcare reforms that our nation desperately needs," said Deborah Burger, RN, CNA/NNOC co-President. CNA/NNOC is the largest and fastest-growing organization of RNs in the U.S. with 86,000 members in all 50 states. This message was sent to [email protected]. Visit your <http://ga1.org/cna/smp.tcl?nkey=xd36u67fy76kdk8k&;>subscription management page to modify your email communication preferences or update your personal profile. To stop ALL email from California Nurses Association, click to <http://ga1.org/cna/remove-domain-direct.tcl?ctx=center&nkey=xd36u67fy76kdk8k&;>remove yourself from our lists (or reply via email with "remove or unsubscribe" in the subject line). <http://> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Mark Crispin Miller's "News From Underground" newsgroup. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [email protected] OR go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
