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So many nights I feel like I can’t get through a single TV show without being bombarded by ads for prescription drugs. Prescription drug companies have increasingly relied on “Direct to Consumer” advertisements as a way to create demand.

I just returned from the NTI/AACN conference thisweek in Chicago, where Value Care member Patty Stewart, RN from Denver,Colorado, and I met and introduced RNs to Healthcare United at anevening reception on Monday. Approximately 40 to 50 Nurses...

Kudos to the New York Times for its recent front page article on the healthcare crisis. The US tends to define its healthcare problem as one of covering the 47 million people without health insurance, which of course is incredibly important. But we need..

A few weeks ago, Healthcare United members took action to speak out against the dangerous changes to Medicaid rules that the Bush Administration issued last year. The administration’s proposal would have cut between $15 and $50 billion in federal...

I’ve always loved Johnny Cash’s song “Take this Job and Shove It”: "Take this job and shove it I ain't working here no more My woman done left and took all the reasons I was working for You better not try to...