News from the Nurse
Articles from the Massachusetts Nurse Newsletter
- July/August 2012
MNA/NNU vow to fight for real reform after Supreme Court upholds Affordable Care Act - Feb/March 2012
Testimony in favor of the Mass. Medicare for All bill - August 2011
Protecting Medicare on its 46th birthday - June/July 2011
Health care costs and the needless attack on public sector employees - April 2011
One Year After PPACA: Time to advance the fight for health care justice - February/March 2011
Top 10 reasons why the health repeal vote is inane - January 2011
What's to come now that Election Day is behind us? - November/December 2010
Mass. MDs snub state’s health reform - October 2010
Fight for a just health care system ongoing at state, federal levels - September 2010
Patient safety and quality of life at stake - No article for June - August
- May 2010
Quality nurse staffing through single-payer - April 2010
Nurses from California to Maine participate
in national labor forum - March 2010
Labor Campaign for Single-Payer - January/February 2010
Entrenching the chokehold of insurance giants - November/December 2009
Activists arrested protesting at Cigna Health - October 2009
Health Care for All: It is an MNA goal, it is part of who we are - September 2009
Recent Photos - July/August 2009
UE weighs in on Washington health care proposals - June, 2009
What nurses want for their patients - May, 2009
Reform roundup: support for solid health nurse care reform continues to mushroom - April, 2009
Include single payer in healthcare reform - March, 2009
Single-payer reform: a major economic stimulus - February, 2009
Medicare for All gets big boost in St. Louis - January, 2009
Huge victory for single payer ballot question - November/December, 2008
Massachusetts’ brand of healthcare reform is no model for national single payer - October, 2008
Market-based failure: a second opinion - September, 2008
Most doctors support national health insurance, new study shows - July/August, 2008
And the word for today is: synergy
- May/June, 2008
Most doctors support national health insurance, new study shows - April, 2008
A brief history of Mass-Care - March, 2008
USW’s Lynn Williams on Single Payer - February, 2008
Insurers whack elderly to celebrate new year - January, 2008
Healthcare for vets—and all others - November/December, 2007
Easy-to-understand national health insurance - October, 2007
Our stake in rebuilding the health care system - September, 2007
Our stake in rebuilding the health care system - July/August, 2007
MNA testifies before legislative committee in support of single-payer reform - June, 2007
Foundation says state's promise of 'universal' health care has been forgotten - May, 2007
The uninsured will decide what is affordable - April, 2007
Is the health insurance law a success? - March, 2007
Fighting for a single payer system: what we can learn from our neighbors to the north - February, 2007
Health care amendment killed as 101 legislators defy state constitution and SJC - January, 2007
Massachusetts Health Care Trust bill revised for new legislative session - November/December, 2006
MNA and the Medicare for All bill - October, 2006
Definition of ‘affordable’ a key issue in new Mass. health care reform law - September, 2006
Chapter 58: An overview of the state’s health care reform plan - July/August, 2006
Health care plan assigned to Constitutional Convention committee - June, 2006
Activists gather to honor champions, support change - May, 2006
New 'universal' health care bill will disappoint, hurt low-income families, say advocates and policy experts - April, 2006
Shifting paradigms in health care: no place for marketplace thinking - March, 2006
Campaign for health care amendment to state constitution gaining momentum - January/February, 2006
Winning affordable prescription drugs for Massachusetts - November/December, 2005
Eaton takes congressional committee on an RN’s view of health care changes - September, 2005
State House flooded with “health care trust” supporters - July/Aug, 2005
MASS-CARE's single-payer bill is the only one meeting IOM criteria - May, 2005
Sen. Tolman and Rep. Hynes honored at annual Dr. Benjamin Gill awards - April, 2005
Further evidence that employer-based health insurance has failed - March, 2005
Medical conditions contributed to half of bankruptcies in 2001, study says - January/February, 2005
As policy makers put universal health care on the front burner, single payer approach is the best road to success - November/December, 2004
Study shows $245 billion savings from cutting insurance and drug waste - October, 2004
Incremental approaches to solving the health care crisis won’t work - September, 2004
Sen. Tolman: an outstanding leader on single payer health care
Note: This issue had a run-over story, click here for page 9 - August, 2004
Voices of concern for health care security: bridge the gap - June/July, 2004
Insuring America's health: principles and recommendations - April, 2004
MASS-CARE celebrates as Health Care Committee passes language specific to S.686 - March, 2004
Insuring America’s health: Highlights from the January 2004 report from the Institute of Medicine - January/February, 2004
Update on S.686 and the future of single-payer health care in Massachusetts - November/December, 2003
Advocates for single-payer health care swarm Statehouse at Oct. 8 hearing - October, 2003
Executive summary: proposal of the physicians’ working group for single-payer national health insurance - September, 2003
Hearing and Lobby Day on Oct. 8 for the Massachusetts Health Care Trust - August, 2003
A single-payer system: what’s in it for the business community - June/July, 2003
Single payer agenda advances in New England - May, 2003
MNA will join thousands of workers for Health Care Action Day on June 5 - April, 2003
Why are we cutting Medicaid and wasting $16 billion of ‘health care’ dollars
