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Registered Nurse Thorild Urdal told the Oakland City Council recently how she sees patients struggling everyday to survive during these tough economic times. They're delaying healthcare, rationing medication or not buying medication at all.
“I see them coming in worse and worse shape, “ the Alta Bates Medical Center nurse said.
That’s why Urdal and her fellow nurses are calling for a Robin...
Last week students spoke out at American University in Washington, D.C. Today the protest was at Columbia University in New York City Amidst the pomp and pride that is graduation day across America, students, frustrated with the huge debts taken on to attend college, are banding together and pressing for solutions. They want a real future, not a life of loan repayment.
They get it: Robin Hood is a game changer. Their chant...
Washington State now has been added to the roster of states where people with serious health problems find themselves bankrupt as a result of the costs of care.
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle studied 200,000 cancer patients and found an astonishingly high rate of insolvency for these very sick individuals. The comparison of bankruptcy records with information from the regional cancer registry led to these findings,...
They fanned out across the country from Los Angeles to Phoenix, Chicago, south to Atlanta and Miami, to the towns of Western Massachusetts, in New York City and beyond, and they entered offices on Capitol Hill in a national “Educate Congress” letter-drop campaign. 190 members of Congress were delivered this urgent message, a reminder that the country’s deteriorating condition needs to be addressed with meaningful policies that bring...
