Healthcare Reform Civil Rights, Nurses, Roe v Wade

January 16, 2023

Jan 16, 2023

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Current State of Affairs - Civil Rights, Nurses, Roe v Wade

Medicare and Integration

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It’s a good day to remember the Poor People’s Campaign and Civil Rights. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law. It allowed those 65 and over to have health insurance. It also integrated hospitals, because a facility could not receive Medicare funds unless it was integrated. An often overlooked fact.

Nurses Need Your Support

Nurses have been leaving the profession since way before the pandemic because facilities were not putting enough nurses on each shift to safely serve the patients. New Legislation has been introduced in Congress called the Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act, S 1567. This bill can help fix that so nurses can provide each patient with sufficient attention. This is a safety issue. The legislation is supported by National Nurses United, and this link has a petition to Congress you can sign. I will also put a link to their website in the references as well as an action to call your representatives

Roe v Wade

Sunday, January 22, 2023 is the 50th anniversary of the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision. The Women’s March will be hosting marches and events nationwide to call attention to the Supreme Court’s dreadful decision to rescind women’s rights. You can find one to attend here. Events take place on the 20th, 21st, and 22nd. Action below to let your representatives know to restore Roe v Wade.

What You Can Do – Contact Legislators

Use Resistbot below or call your representative and senators say

“My name is __________________(name) and I live in __________________(zipcode) and I am your constituent. We all deserve a healthcare system that works for all of us, that means women too!!. Women deserve full access to healthcare, including reproductive healthcare. I want you to work to restore Roe v Wade into law now.

I also want to draw your attention to unsafe nurse staffing levels in the US and the danger that presents for patients. Please work to support the Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act, S 1567 and limit the patient staffing levels nurses have to support so they can provide quality care.

As my representative I need you to do this.”

Resistbot

Text SIGN PHLCDF to 50409 to send the letter below to your representative and senators.

We all deserve a healthcare system that works for all of us, that means women too!!. Women deserve full access to healthcare, including reproductive healthcare. I want you to work to restore Roe v Wade into law now.

As my representative I need you to do this.