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One in five U.S. workers is uninsured, a statistically significant increase from fewer than one in seven during the mid-1990s, according to a

With Congress and the Obama administration discussing how to reform the nation’s health care system, a new report looks at what has happened since the last significant reform effort ended… Read more »

Personal, billing data are missingBy Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff  |  March 24, 2009 Paperwork containing the personal medical information of at least 66 patients at Massachusetts General Hospital was… Read more »

St. Vincent Hospital Nurses Launch Campaign to Warn Public of Safety Risks Following Management’s Implementation of Policy Allowing Care of Patients in Hallways on Inpatient Units Policy Endangers Patients, Violates… Read more »

Stephanie Kraft, Valley Advocate, March 17, 2009 Not just a moral imperative, but an economic imperative; that’s what President Barack Obama said about health care reform at the national summit… Read more »

By Alec MacGillisWashington Post Staff WriterSunday, March 22, 2009; A02 As business and labor gird for battle over legislation that would make it easier for workers to organize, the debate… Read more »

Physician, researcher and healthcare policy wonk David Blumenthal was named as President Barack Obama’s choice to become the national coordinator for health information technology at HHS. Blumenthal, an internist who… Read more »

California Nurses Association Will Work Together To Unionize Hospital Workers, Promote Universal Health Coverage The

Saying they need a more “powerful national movement” to protect nurses, three unions merged in late February. United American Nurses, the California Nurses Association National/Nurses Organizing Committee and the Massachusetts… Read more »