What did President Obama speak out about on the american nurses association?
Public Option Should be Access to the Congressional Plan, But Best Solution is to Expand Medicare to Cover Everyone OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ –The nation’s largest union and professional association of registered nurses tonight welcomed the renewed call by President Obama for comprehensive healthcare reform. “But sadly, the President’s prescription for reform still falls short of the full reform that is needed to solve our ever escalating healthcare crisis,” said Deborah Burger, RN, co-President of the 86,000-member California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee. “The President made a renewed call for a public option, but a public option should at least be a ‘Congressional option’ at least as good as the benefits Congress members get. “The biggest problem with his approach, however, is not the public option, it’s the private option. Private insurers are the principal cause of skyrocketing healthcare costs, and the disgraceful denials of care for people
Hoping to keep the health care momentum going following last night’s joint address to Congress, President Obama trotted out the American Nurses Association … Sources: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_0_t&usg=AFQjCNEp0Vgdl2NScojU9LXK4fDjC82-gQ&cid=1310446573&ei=PCmpSui2Gqjm9ATR96-IAg&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.abcnews.com%2Fpoliticalpunch%2F2009%2F09%2Fobama-trots-out-nurses-endorsement-again-to-keep-health-care-temperature-up-.
