Politico reports that President Obama will have a public statement on health care from the Rose Garden this afternoon at about 1 PM. They mention in an update that
At 1:05 p.m. in the Rose Garden, THE PRESIDENT delivers remarks on
health care reform surrounded by AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION, which
represents the nation's 2.9 million registered nurses [ed: my emphasis]. The nurses are
there to show their strong support for health reform. Nurses are on the
front lines of the battle against rising health-care costs and the
anguish of health-care insecurity. They see the people in the emergency
rooms who don’t have enough money to pay for health care, and throw
themselves on the mercy of hospital, and people who didn’t get care
until it was too late, because they couldn’t afford it.
No. The American Nurses Association doesn't represent fully the interests of the nation's 2.9 million registered nurses, at least not the non-union ones. (I work primarily at a non-union hospital). The ANA is, rather, an umbrella organization for various state nurses unions.
Gee, I can't imagine why an organization that represents primarily unionized workers might support the socialized medicine aims of the Democratic president the unions helped to elect, can you? And doesn't this Politico report read like it was written by the ANA themselves?
