Bill Moyers Journal Focuses on Health Care & Nurses’ Role in Reform

Mike Hall, AFL-CIO, May 14, 2008 Intensive care nurse Geri Jenkins says that a 67-year-old male patient with a history of four heart attacks, a quadruple bypass and an implanted defibrillator and about to take a high stress job “would be uninsurable for having a pre-existing condition.” Unless, of course, he was Dick Cheney and about to become the vice president of the United States in 2001. Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), says Cheney can have the choice of doctors. ... Bill