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VU ALL OVER AGAIN — Washoe Med / Renown nurses picket
during a one-day
strike on 6-23-2001. The issues were the same as during
a 1990 organizing drive and remain today: Understaffing which
erodes patient care so that the conglomerate may profit and
proliferate on the backs of health care consumers and taxpayers. |
SMOKING
GUN —> The big
picture ain't pretty.
DC GOP lawmakers are trying to bludgeon thru Obamacare
"repeal" because the budget cuts therein will substantially
reduce projected deficits. Without those projections in law, under
current revenue-neutral rules, they will not be able to pass their
tax cuts for the corporately wealthy. No less than conservative
Reason Magazine Editor Peter Suderman said that
on the June
19 PBS/Bloomberg Charlie Rose TV program. As
Lily Tomlin once opined, no matter how cynical you become,
it's hard to keep up. The game's afoot. So use a foot to kick
some ass.
Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno.
Andrew
Sexy
scandals, whitewashes & black towers
In Nevada visit, new Veterans Administration
boss proves all jobs require training
Media overlook
federal sex/race/ethnicity investigation into Washoe County School
District
Meanwhile,
big money is spent strictly on abstinence
State panel to review militarization of police departments
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded
from the Sparks Tribune / 8-21-2014
105
+ 285 layoffs at LV public hospital called necessary
Las
Vegas Sun / 8-21-2014
Study
Shows the Madness of States Refusing to Expand Medicaid
Joshua
Holland / Bill Moyers.com / 8-14-2014
How
to assassinate Medicare and Medicaid
Health
Savings Accounts: The insurance industry's Trojan Horse
Andrew
Barbano / Reno Gazette-Journal / 7-19-2014
Las
Vegas cancer center drops Obamacare patients
Culinary
Union is part of cancelled co-op
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 7-17-2014
Nevada
OSHA fines Summerlin Hospital in fatal TB outbreak
Las
Vegas Review-Journal 4-10-2014
Fold
your favorite charity, then go thank yourself
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
2-13-2014 Sparks Tribune
Grim
picture painted of mental health care in Nevada
By
Ed Vogel / Las Vegas Review-Journal 1-29-2014
RENO,
Nev. (12-5-2013) — Former Nevada Assemblymember and hospital
trustee Vivian Freeman died this morning at her home in Reno.
She was 86 years old.
Freeman's
distinguished career included Nevada's first mining reclamation
law
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 12-12-2013
EXCLUSIVE!
1995 Washoe Med Grand Jury commentary
Additional columns just uploaded from our archives
Download the Grand Jury Report
Read
it and weep
Nevada's hospital cost control law worked, so the
legislature repealed it, of course
POOR
DENNY'S ALMANAC 11-21-2013
— On this date in 2004, Ray Hagar and Sandi Wright reported
in the Reno Gazette-Journal that local schools attended
by low income students tended to be the most poorly maintained
schools.
THE
BARBWIRE RESPONDS: So what else is new? Over the decades, the
RGJ has done a sterling job investigating separate but unequal
health care and education. Alas and alack, nothing much ever changes
on the High Desert Plantation. For a quick sad summary, see the
Barbwire of
April 2, 2006 (updated periodically).
Staff,
visitors and patients sue southern Nevada Summerlin Hospital over
TB exposure
AP
& Las Vegas Sun / 11-20-2013
Assemblymember
Peggy Pierce, D-Las Vegas, 1954-2013
USA
at crossroads:
New Deal or
new Confederacy?
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
10-10-2013 Sparks Tribune
State
of Health
National health care comes up against a very sick state.
WHAT'S IN IT FOR US?
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 10-10-2013
Another
public relations coup for Nevada
Report:
Every nursing home in Nevada cited by inspectors
Chronic understaffing in a very lucrative & growing industry
"Nevada is
one of two states where every nursing home was cited with one
or more deficiencies by state health inspectors, and one in three
nursing homes was cited for a severe deficiency, meaning a resident
suffered actual harm or was in imminent danger."
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 8-12-2013
Major
union leaders blast Obamacare for hurting health plans
Labor starts to bail: Democratic health
care plan support erodes
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 8-1-2013
Full
text of letter to Reid and Pelosi
Death
panels hard at work right here in River City
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
7-4-2013 Sparks Tribune
Guilty
of Murder: Las Vegas hepatitis C murder cases archive
Defrocked
California doc allowed to practice in Nevada
by
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 5-30-2013
We
Don't Need No Education Part XIV
Never trust gun runners, politicians or PR men
Barbwire
by Barbano
Expanded from the 1-31-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
Clinging
to the ledge and paying for our sins
Governor
pays back Nevada health insurance monopoly and major campaign
contributor
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-24-2013 Daily Sparks
Tribune
ALSO
—As predicted last year, mass firings have begun as the union
busters take over St. Mary's Regional Medical Center in Reno as
of June 30 . Looks like the Hot August Strike season may come
early this year. Stay
tuned and keep
NevadaLabor.com posted.
Meet
the unholy new owners of St. Mary's
By
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 6-21-2012
St.
Mary's firings begin
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded
from the 4-8-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
Nevada
would profit handsomely from Obamacare
Hugh Jackson / Las Vegas CityLife 4-5-2012
A
bunch of law-breaking, union-busting, profit-gouging sleazoids
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded
from the 4-1-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
Renown
150th: Profiting at taxpayer expense
Barbwire
by Barbano/ Daily Sparks Tribune 3-18-2011
Heart
doctors accuse Renown/Washoe Med of fraud and conspiracy
Reno
Gazette-Journal 11-13-2011
The
Nevada initiative partially banning smoking in public buildings
has resulted in a big drop in hospital admissions for heart attacks
and strokes. Too bad casino and bar workers don't enjoy any protection.
Daily
Sparks Tribune / 9-18-2011
BARBWIRE
EXCLUSIVE
Reno Catholic hospital sale rumored
UPDATE:
Confirmed, controversial and perhaps
corrupt
Barbwire
by Barbano/ Daily Sparks Tribune 8-28-2011
What's
the ugliest part of your body?
Barbwire
by Barbano
Expanded from the 7-31-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Nevada
government's license to kill
A
funeral dirge for the disposable worker
Barbwire
by Barbano
Expanded from the 6-5-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Running
red in a frozen economy
Sparks
and Reno face huge fines for labor law violations
Cancerexia: Ralph Lauren boycott widens
Barbwire by Barbano/ Expanded from Daily Sparks Tribune /
12-13-2009
Health
care in prime time, ready or not
Barbwire
by Barbano/ Expanded from Daily Sparks Tribune /12-6-2009
If
Reform Fails: Health Care, Jobs and Unions LIVE TV Dec. 6
Available
to every TV set in N/E California and N/W Nevada
Click
here to see the show live on your computer
NOTE:
The above webstreaming link will not be hot until 5:30 p.m. PST
/ 01:30 ZULU/GMT, a half-hour before showtime on Dec. 6.
The above link is now disabled.
Catch
the CW network re-run, 9:00 p.m. PST/05:00 ZULU/GMT
Turn
on, tune in and tell a friend
If
Reform Fails: Health Care, Jobs and Unions
LIVE TV Dec. 6, 2009
Barbwire
by Barbano/ Expanded from Daily Sparks Tribune / 11-29-2009
Give
'em health Harry, part deux
Barbwire
by Barbano/ Daily Sparks Tribune /
11-22-2009
Sick
and tired of being sick and tired
Barbwire
/ Daily
Sparks Tribune / 11-15-2009
Déjà
vu all over again
Renown/Washoe
Med, always in desperate need of nurses, fires 15
9-29-2009
EXCLUSIVE!
1995 Washoe Med Grand Jury commentary
Additional columns just uploaded from our archives
Download the Grand Jury Report
Newly
uploaded report
Nevada's hospital cost control law worked, so the
legislature repealed it, of course
Washoe
Med's chairman of the board attempts to rewrite history while
erasing a venerable name
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"Studies
show that people still think we're a county-run hospital,
but we haven't been that for over 20 years....There is a
perception that a government-operated facility can't be
that good and they will choose not to give money to the
foundation because they think we are tax-subsidized, which
is false."
—
Mike Alonso, attorney and board chair
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From Washoe Medical Center renamed Renown Health
Daily Sparks Tribune, 9-22-2006
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Nothing
could be further from the truth.
Washoe Med/Renown has been receiving huge taxpayer subsidies for
indigent care since 1985, when the hospital was given away by
corrupt county officials under a false promise to permanently
relieve the taxpayers of the costs of indigent
care. See the Washoe
County Grand Jury Report available exclusively at NevadaLabor.com.
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