[1]NNU - Medicare for All!



By now, you’ve already heard from us a few times about the hospital
industry's nightmarish plan to increase profits by sending acutely ill
patients home to receive “care,” instead of at the hospital where they
belong.

This plan, which we call “Home All Alone,” exacerbates inequalities that
are baked into our profit-driven health care system.

When hospitals try to sell Home All Alone programs by saying patients
prefer to be treated in a familiar home environment, patients and families
are forced to either hire a caregiver, likely a woman of color who
receives very low wages for long and hard work, or take on the work
themselves, which often means having a woman in the family do it without
pay. These programs depend on exploiting racial and gender inequities by
placing the burden of care onto family or hired caregivers who are
predominantly women.

Home All Alone delegates the labor and the risks of care onto patients and
their families while hospitals charge the same amount and, under the
pandemic’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) waivers, are
reimbursed at the same rate for at-home care as they are for in-hospital
care. It’s a scam, meant to increase profits at the expense of
caregivers and quality patient care.

[ [link removed] ]To learn more about the Home All Alone plan to devalue nurses’ labor
and care work more broadly, please join our next webinar, “The Corporate
Abuse of Caregivers,” next Thursday at 5pm PT/8pm ET.

The Fight for the Future of Health Care Webinar Series: “The Corporate
Abuse of Caregivers”

Thursday, August 25th
5:00 pm PT/8:00 pm ET
Zoom

[ [link removed] ]RSVP now »

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During the webinar, we’ll hear from a powerful slate of guest speakers,
including Zenei Triunfo-Cortez, RN, NNU President; Nancy Folbre, Professor
Emerita of Economics and Director of the Program on Gender and Care Work
at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst; and Raj Patel, Research Professor in the Lyndon B.
Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin.

We’ll discuss how Home All Alone threatens patient care, jeopardizes RN
working conditions, exploits gender inequities, and contributes to the
broader devaluation of care work.

Next week’s webinar will show how the Home All Alone program stands in
stark contrast to Medicare For All’s promise to cover long-term care,
alleviate the need for unpaid family caregiving, and allow for the
establishment of uniform national standards of care, including mandating
nurse to patient ratios. [ [link removed] ]Will you join us next Thursday?

RSVP now »

We hope to see you there,

Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All

 



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