Nurses at San Francisco General attempt to meet with Mayor Ed Lee about staffing shortages in the busiest emergency room in the city. Nurses have filed 300 official reports in the last two years, detailing unsafe conditions, but there has been no response from hospital management.
Wednesday’s status report on the health-insurance reforms was by far the best news for Democrats and the Obama administration since the program’s incompetent launch. January was the first month when new enrollments surpassed expectations, as the balky HealthCare.gov Web site began functioning more or less as intended.
As burgeoning labor group and Franklin-based CHS grow, so do their differences.
Having a baby in Paris gave me a crash course in socialized medicine—and a new, very French definition of “costly.”
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Jonathan Gruber, key architect of the Massachusetts health care law talks with Rachel Maddow about the law’s similarities to the Affordable Care Act
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