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The house parties, stretching from Alabama to Idaho, build on the "Scrubsfor SiCKO" campaign during the movie's summer debut which saw over 10,000nurse volunteers gathering outside theaters and talking to the public aboutachieving genuine healthcare reform.
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The goal of the house parties is to build support for the kind ofguaranteed, single-payer healthcare systems that are succeeding in every otherindustrialized democracy -- a point Moore makes powerfully in the movie.Nurses will strategize about how to use patient advocacy to help passsingle-payer/Medicare-for-all-type legislation such as Rep. John Conyers' HR676 now pending in Congress, and make it a central focus of the presidentialcampaign.
Nurses are crucial to the public education campaign about how single-payerhealthcare, guaranteeing comprehensive, quality healthcare with an expandedand improved Medicare for all, is far superior to the profit-driven,industry-centered healthcare sector that has come to dominate Americanmedicine.
"SiCKO" profiles a number of Americans with insurance who have been deniedneeded care by their insurance companies, describes how the insurance-basedhealthcare system is structured to keep it that way, and provides examples ofother industrialized nations where insurance companies do not stand in the wayof medical care.
HR 676 and similar bills in several state legislatures would have onepublic entity collecting and disbursing all revenues for care delivered by ourcurrent, mostly private hospitals, clinics, and doctors, similar to howMedicare works.
The Registered Nurse Response Network is a project of the CaliforniaNurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee which represents75,000 RNs in all 50 states.
SOURCE Registered Nurse Response Network
