Nurses to Obama: Stand up!

[Enrique]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChxHE5eqWK8

National Nurses United brings nurses and citizens across the country together to say, "Stand Up, President Obama!" We're looking for the president we voted for. And if you can't stand up, Mr. President, then the people who elected you will stand up to corporate power and monied interests. So will you stand up with us President Obama, to protect our country? As nurses, caring for the most vulnerable among us is our job. That's what we do. That's what we expect you to do.

Social Security, healthcare, and basic human rights and protections are being undermined every day. Nurses are standing together to say enough is enough. Please join us in saying, Stand Up! President Obama! Stand up for the uninsured, the underinsured, the elderly, the sick, the most vulnerable in society.

Filmed on location in downtown Chicago, and in President Obama's neighborhood in Chicago.
Sponsored by National Nurses United.

Thanks to Dorothy Ahmad, RN and the people of Chicago for their kind assistance.

[DrDan]

1. Bravo!

my hats off to the Nat'l Nurses United (which includes my son, I proudly add)

[xchrom]

2. They must be a bunch of 'Obama haters' Nt

[ProSense]

10. They don't hate Obama,

They just wanted to kill the health care bill because it wasn't single payer.

What they should do is support this effort.

[xchrom]

14. I think they know better than you. Nt

[ProSense]

17. What about

these nurses (PDF):

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On behalf of the American Nurses Association (ANA), the only full-service professional organization representing the interests of the nation‟s 3.1 million registered nurses, I am writing to express our opposition to H.R. 2, the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act, and implore you to vote “no” when the bill comes before the House tomorrow. H.R. 2 would repeal both the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and parts of the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010.

Nurses support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) because it will expand insurance coverage and transform our nation‟s health care system from one that focuses on „sick‟ care to a model that emphasizes prevention, primary care, and disease management. As fierce advocates for our patients, we do not want to continue to see them delay or forgo much-needed care, only to arrive in emergency rooms across the country for costly conditions that could have been easily prevented with access to primary care. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act puts patients at the center of care and recognizes the vital role that nurses play in health care delivery. It emphasizes coordinated models of care and provides for major investments in improving the quality of care and in nursing workforce development. For these reasons and more, we believe that a vote for repeal would be a devastating step backward.

As the largest single group of clinical health care professionals within the health system, licensed registered nurses are on the front lines. We strongly believe that affordable, accessible, quality, health care for all should not be a partisan or political issue. We appreciate your consideration of our position and views and look forward to working with you on these issues and more in the 112th Congress.

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[MannyGoldstein]

3. He is standing up!

For bankers. And against Social Security.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

5. YES BARACK, YOU SURE KNOW WHO ELECTED YOU

I AM SO DISAPPOINTED IN YOUR INACTION

[MannyGoldstein]

6. That's unfair! He's taking action!

No President to date has gotten so far in slashing the "milk cow with 300 million tits".

This is a great day.

[TBF]

4. Solidarity. nt

[RufusTFirefly]

7. K and R!

Nurses, teachers, librarians.
These are my heroes.

[roguevalley]

12. Mine too.

[patrice]

8. K&R

[patrice]

9. Nurses rock!

[bvar22]

11. Obama??...Stand Up for the Working Class???

LOL

[CrawlingChaos]

13. K&R - but surely they realize if he was going to stand up

he would have done it by now

[old mark]

15. K&R- Mr. Obama if you are going to support the American people

over the American corporate/rich, now is a great time to do so.


mark

[cottonseed]

16. I hate Obama too! He's a CorporoFacist! He wipes his fanny with Real Progressives like us!

I'm done with him.

[ej510]

19. He won't because it's election season and needs corporate money.