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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #178: A Nurse’s Prescription for Fixing Healthcare
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We hear a lot from politicians, doctors, hospitals, and insurers about how to fix the healthcare system—the same crowd that brought us our current disaster of exorbitant prices and overcrowded emergency rooms. But the people who actually deliver the bulk of everyday healthcare services are often overlooked in the politics of medicine: nurses. Unionized nurses are campaigning for sweeping changes to the healthcare system, including a national single-payer plan and safe staffing levels in hospitals. We talked to Cokie Giles of National Nurses United and Linda Aiken of University of Pennsylvania’s Sc...