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Kaiser mental health clinicians step up their fight for patient care

October 17, 2019 By Marilyn Bechtel

Kaiser Permanente’s mental health clinicians throughout California are taking their years-long struggle to assure adequate care for their patients to a new level this week.

Nurses’ Medicare For All campaign picks up key lawmakers

October 3, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

National Nurses United’s long-running campaign to garner congressional support for Medicare For All has won several key lawmakers to the cause.

An (almost) death in the family, and the cost left behind

September 4, 2019 By Al Neal

Just as quick as the onset of stroke, the medical bills arrived in the mail, nearly half a million dollars of them.

Union leaders laud house vote to repeal ‘Cadillac tax’ on health care plans

July 19, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

The tax, part of the ACA, was supposed to prompt market-driven decisions by consumers on health care, but economic analysts pointed out it would lead to declines in coverage instead.

Calif. mental health clinicians to Kaiser Permanente: Let us care for patients

July 12, 2019 By Marilyn Bechtel

Across the state, just one mental health clinician is available for every 3,000 Kaiser patients.