Nurses tell candidates: "Stop Selling Insurance and Back Real Reform"

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From Mike Moore's website: Nurses Launch Major Ohio Radio Ad Campaign Telling Candidates: Stop Selling Insurance and Back Real Reform

On the eve of Ohio’s crucial primary vote Tuesday, the National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association today launched a major radio campaign across Ohio with an emphatic message to the presidential candidates to stop selling private insurance policies and support real healthcare reform.

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Criticizing “individual mandates” that require people to purchase insurance—a major focus of the debate on healthcare among the Democratic presidential candidates— the nurses say that mandating private insurance is not “universal healthcare,” especially while the insurance giants “can still charge as much as they want and still deny you care when you are sick.”

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Nurses know the problem with insurance-based care, the ad notes. They regularly “witness lives lost, care denied, families ruined by big insurance corporations. Nurses know there is only one real cure for our broken health care system. We ask the candidates to commit to the highest standard of quality care through Medicare for all Americans. That’s the real reform that puts decision-making power where it belongs – with you, your nurses, and your doctors.”

National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association

No matter who wins tomorrow, the debate goes on. The cost of health care is destroying lives and families, and draining billions from the economy. The cost of health care is one of the factors driving jobs overseas.

It's a major factor driving discrimination against older workers; older workers are being told: "I'd really like to hire you; but, you'll cost us too much in healthcare costs."