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US nurses start “health insurance casualty of the day” website

BMJ 2008; 337 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.a1696 (Published 17 September 2008) Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a1696
  1. Janice Hopkins Tanne
  1. 1New York

    Nurses in the United States are posting daily updates on a website in the lead up to November’s presidential election to highlight the plight of people who can’t get adequate insurance for medical care.

    Every day until the 4 November election a “health insurance casualty” medical history is posted on the website of the California Nurses Association and its national arm, the National Nurses Organizing Committee, and emailed to people who have signed up to this service. It …

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