[1]NNU - Medicare for All!



Last month, we wrote to you about the hospital industry's nightmarish plan
to increase profits by sending sick patients home to receive “care,”
instead of at the hospital where they belong.

But that’s not the only part of their “Home All Alone” scheme. They are
taking it a step further: The industry is trying to take a page out of
Uber’s playbook and attempting to misclassify nurses as independent
contractors and turn these jobs into gig work. 

We know what this is all about: increasing profits at the expense of
professional caregivers and quality patient care. They want to outsource
care from registered nurses to less-trained, non-union health care workers
(or even worse, onto untrained and unpaid family members).       

[ [link removed] ]To learn more about this dangerous scheme and why it matters in our
fight to win Medicare for All, will you join us for the second webinar in
our Summer 2022 Public Education Webinar Series, ‘Uber for Nurses? The
"Gigification" of Health Care’?

Summer 2022 Public Education Webinar Series

[ [link removed] ]Uber for Nurses? The "Gigification" of Health Care

Thursday, June 30
5:00 pm PT/8:00 pm ET
Zoom

[ [link removed] ]RSVP now »

As we’re fighting for Medicare for All, we’re not just fighting for
guaranteed health care for all — we’re fighting for every patient to have
high-quality, direct, hands-on care of registered nurses and other
professional caregivers. The “gigification” of health care would do just
the opposite, and we have to fight back. 

On this special public education webinar, we will hear directly from
experts with National Nurses United’s Education Department, as well as our
special guest speakers: Zenei Triunfo-Cortez, RN, NNU President; Lorena
Gonzalez, incoming Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the California Labor
Federation; Veena Dubal, Professor of Law, UC Hastings; and Gabriel
Winant, Assistant Professor of History, University of Chicago. 

During the webinar, we will:

* Look at how the hospital industry's quest to maximize profits by
automating and relocating care from hospitals to the home opens the
door to shifting more nurses and health care workers into a precarious
gig-worker model. 
* Examine the implications for quality of care, job quality, and worker
power as a result of these shifting circumstances.
* Explore how the "gigification" of health care is a symptom of the
fundamental difference between the corporate, for-profit model and the
care-driven model of Medicare for All that the nurses envision.

If you
don’t want to miss this essential discussion about the next battleground
for the future of health care, [ [link removed] ]please RSVP here for our webinar that’s
just 8 days away.

Hope to see you there, 

Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All

P.S. To bring awareness to “Home All Alone” schemes, we created a video
that illuminates just how dangerous these programs can be for patients.
[ [link removed] ]Please take two minutes to watch it here.

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