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Bill Moyers' Journal to Feature California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee in Friday, May 9th Episode
OAKLAND, Calif., May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Turning their camera on the
fastest-growing union in America -- and the nation's largest union of RNs
-- Bill Moyers' Journal will feature the California Nurses
Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee's fight for guaranteed,
single-payer healthcare in an episode scheduled to air this Friday at 9 p.m.
EDT (check local listings at
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html).
The airing comes as CNA/NNOC, and its allies in the Leadership Conference
for Guaranteed Healthcare, prepare for a busy summer of healthcare organizing
that includes a National Day of Action Against Health Insurance Corporations
on June 19th, with a major rally outside a convention by the industry group
AHIP (America's Health Insurance Plans) inSan Francisco. (For more
information, visit http://www.GuaranteedHealthcare.org.)
CNA/NNOC formed the Conference, along with Physicians for a National
Health Program, Healthcare Now!, and Progressive Democrats of America, to
advocate for the kind of guaranteed healthcare on the single-payer model that
is succeeding in nearly every other industrialized democracy. The public
-- and healthcare experts -- has repeatedly expressed support for this kind of
"Medicare for All" reform, but politicians have been slow to catch up.
CNA/NNOC and fellow single-payer supporters have engaged in a wide variety
of innovative organizing tactics in support of their healthcare proposals,
including television ads targeted to all Presidential candidates and a series
of print ads calling for all Americans to receive the same medical access as
Vice President Dick Cheney. "There shouldn't be a double standard," says Rose
Ann DeMoro, executive director of CNA/NNOC, on the show. "We, as the public,
pay for Dick Cheney's care ... why is the government not providing the same
type of care to all Americans?"
CNA/NNOC's efforts have been supported by its rapid growth, and the
creation at long last of a national nurses' movement. CNA/NNOC now represents
over 80,000 RNs in all 50 states. For more information, visit
http://www.CalNurses.org.
SOURCE California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
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