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In the mix: Obama’s healthcare reform receives strong reaction from nurs

Stressed Out Nurses Weekly, October 19, 2009

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 In a recent post on StressedOutNures.com, I wrote about President Obama's healthcare reform plan, and his reliance on physicians and nurses to support his plan. It seems the administration is hoping to gain public support for the plan using this method, as nurses and physicians are highly respected by the public.

Your reaction was strong and mixed, though many do not support the current healthcare reform bill. Here are a few excerpts from the comments posted on that blog:

"As any nurse knows, there are times when it is just too dangerous to continue to work in an unsafe patient care environment. Public option availability will give more freedom to nurses to walk away from an inhuman workload environment."

"I am appalled, frankly, at the number of nursing (and medical) colleagues who OPPOSE healthcare reform!"

"Asking nurses to back [Obama's] plan and using nursing’s high public opinion rating as a catalyst for furthering a plan that is not in our best interest, instead of asking them to help design the plan itself, is backwards."

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