UNAC/UHCP is the largest nurses union in Southern California representing registered nurses and other health care professionals. UNAC/UHCP advocates for efficient, high-quality health care, and strives for social justice for all.
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United Nurses Assns. of California/Union of Health Care Professionals Watch this video on health care reform for an update on where we stand in terms of a vote on Capitol Hill. Each day is one step closer, and we are on the precipice of a major shift in this country - one that stands behind the principle that anyone who struggles with paying outrageous prices for health care does not aut...omatically fall into the categories of lazy, deadbeat or illegal.
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Top aides to President Obama say this is the week where health care reform will finally become law. Democratic lawmakers agree, but they're still trying to win over enough support to get the bill through the House and Senate.
United Nurses Assns. of California/Union of Health Care Professionals Most of us probably won't get everything we want out of the final health care bill, but will it honestly benefit us to throw the baby out with the bath water - leaving us with exactly what we have right now? We need health care reform period. How many babies do you know that take their first step and never take another...? Passing any kind of reform is difficult. Let's get what we can now and not let up on pushing for the rest of what we know will serve the American people.
www.salon.com
The right calls Obamacare "socialized medicine" anyway. So why didn't Obama push for the real thing?
United Nurses Assns. of California/Union of Health Care Professionals It will be interesting to see what happens if these accusations are proven true.
www.latimes.com
The head of the state Senate's Labor Committee accused a workplace safety board Wednesday of being biased toward employers and ignoring a law that requires fines for failing to report on-the-job injuries. ...
United Nurses Assns. of California/Union of Health Care Professionals It's amazing how things work together - fast food businesses that cater to our hectic lifestyles are allowed to grow unchecked, despite the well-known health disadvantages, and then health insurance companies use the poor health ensuing from this lifestyle (watch "Super Size Me" by Morgan Spurlock) to charge people out... the nose if they want any kind of care. Health insurance is not like car insurance - it's not supposed to be only when you have an disaster. Too bad the insurance companies don't seem to realize that. If they didn't want to cover sick people, they never should have entered the health insurance business.
www.healthreform.gov
Coverage Denied: How the Current Health Insurance System Leaves Millions Behind
United Nurses Assns. of California/Union of Health Care Professionals $1,115 a month for employer-based family health care?!?! For "insurance" that's still pretty expensive! No wonder health insurers are losing their healthier consumers - if I wasn't getting sick I wouldn't want to pay that either.
www.whitehouse.gov
$1,115 – that’s the average premium for employer-sponsored family coverage per month in 2009. Annually, that amounts to $13,375 – or roughly the yearly income of someone working a minimum wage job.
United Nurses Assns. of California/Union of Health Care Professionals Prevention is key - without prevention, we all pay for the care needed afterwards. There are many factors at play; as health professionals our voices stand out on these health care-related matters. We need to keep speaking out and speaking up for the people in our community.
www.californiahealthline.org
A recent report finds that minority and low-income women in Los Angeles County tend to have lower rates of preventive screenings and higher rates of chronic conditions. Researchers suggest that limited access to care could be a contributing factor. Los Angeles Times.
United Nurses Assns. of California/Union of Health Care Professionals On behalf of UNAC/UHCP, Barbara Blake and Jimmy Gomez attended the swearing-in of John A. Perez as the next Speaker of the California Assembly. UNAC/UHCP looks forward to this new beginning for California and wishing Speaker Perez the best of luck.
United Nurses Assns. of California/Union of Health Care Professionals It is clear from these rate hikes that the only answer is to remove the decision-making power from the businesses who are seeking solely to make a profit for themselves. In concept alone, there seems to be nothing wrong with that idea - until those companies end up being significantly responsible for worsening the American condition.
www.californiahealthline.org
Yesterday, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius met with the executives of five major insurance companies and asked them to justify recent premium hikes for individual policyholders. Sebelius called for the insurers to post information about their rates online. CQ HealthBeat et al.
United Nurses Assns. of California/Union of Health Care Professionals We have to be open to multiple new and innovative approaches to curing our health care-related woes in this country.
www.reuters.com
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Working with the food industry to cut salt intake by nearly 10 percent could prevent hundreds of thousands of heart attacks and strokes over several decades and save the U.S. government
United Nurses Assns. of California/Union of Health Care Professionals Hospitals and doctors in a race for a bigger piece of the pie? Sure - my pie...you're pie...our pie. They ate all of theirs already so they're coming to our table with a bill in one hand and a fork in the other.
online.wsj.com
A battle over who to blame for rising health-care costs is escalating, as insurers, hospitals and doctors seek to pin the problem on each other and say none of the health-care legislation under consideration does enough to solve it.
United Nurses Assns. of California/Union of Health Care Professionals Let's hope and pray that this health summit will be productive for the American public.
articles.latimes.com
The healthcare summit that convenes Thursday in Washington has emerged as a high-stakes gambit for President Obama and opposing Republican lawmakers, carrying risks for both sides that could not
United Nurses Assns. of California/Union of Health Care Professionals If employers are in a position where they have and feel no need to improve wages and benefits, non-unionized workers are much more likely to be taken advantage of for the foreseeable future. The only way to guarantee rights in the workplace is the have a union - and for unions to continue to change the employment landscape for the better.
www.scpr.org
As the Senate debates a $15 billion jobs bill, the employment picture is like a good news, bad news joke — except there's only bad news. Even after the unemployment rate starts to come down – which won't be anytime soon – wages are likely to remain flat for the foreseeable future.
United Nurses Assns. of California/Union of Health Care Professionals Health insurers need to fully understand that taking advantage of the American public is only contributing to the problems we are facing right now - and that those in public service committed to protecting us WILL find them out.
www.sfgate.com
State investigators accused Anthem Blue Cross on Monday of committing more than 700 violations of California law, including misleading consumers, failing to pay claims on time and ignoring inquiries from regulators in the state insurance commissioner's office.
United Nurses Assns. of California/Union of Health Care Professionals We've got to get some change in this crazy health care system to help rein in costs over time for Americans. Each step forward is still a step forward.
www.necn.com
Plan comes three days before televised summit with leaders from both parties
United Nurses Assns. of California/Union of Health Care Professionals Do you think a bill to tax soft drinks might actually make some people consider NOT drinking soda anymore? It's amazing how much of a staple soda is in the American diet - and how completely and utterly devoid of any nutritional value it is.
Two bills, two targets close to home: Sugary drinks and cell-phone radiation - San Jose Mercury News
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One proposed law would levy a penny tax per teaspoon of sugar in a drink. The other would require retailers to post how much radiation cell phones emit.
