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Nurses Across Nation Host SiCKO House Parties to Urge Guaranteed

Healthcare as DVD Released

Posted : Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:20:08 GMT

Author : Registered Nurse Response Network

Category : Press Release

OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- 's healthcare

" horror " film SiCKO will continue its unique impact on American

society and politics with its Nov. 6 DVD release, which will be

commemorated with more than 125 nurse-led house parties around the

nation, the Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN) reports today.

Call for information about house parties in your area.

The house parties, stretching from Alabama to Idaho, build on the

" Scrubs for SiCKO " campaign during the movie's summer debut which saw

over 10,000 nurse volunteers gathering outside theaters and talking to

the public about achieving genuine healthcare reform.

The goal of the house parties is to build support for the kind of

guaranteed, single-payer healthcare systems that are succeeding in

every other industrialized democracy -- a point makes powerfully

in the movie. Nurses will strategize about how to use patient advocacy

to help pass single-payer/Medicare-for-all-type legislation such as

Rep. Conyers' HR 676 now pending in Congress, and make it a

central focus of the presidential campaign.

Nurses are crucial to the public education campaign about how

single-payer healthcare, guaranteeing comprehensive, quality

healthcare with an expanded and improved Medicare for all, is far

superior to the profit-driven, industry-centered healthcare sector

that has come to dominate American medicine.

" SiCKO " profiles a number of Americans with insurance who have been

denied needed care by their insurance companies, describes how the

insurance-based healthcare system is structured to keep it that way,

and provides examples of other industrialized nations where insurance

companies do not stand in the way of medical care.

HR 676 and similar bills in several state legislatures would have one

public entity collecting and disbursing all revenues for care

delivered by our current, mostly private hospitals, clinics, and

doctors, similar to how Medicare works.

The Registered Nurse Response Network is a project of the California

Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee which

represents 75,000 RNs in all 50 states.

Registered Nurse Response Network

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