Local nurses join call to reject ‘mortal threat’ in House health bill

​On a day in which members of National Nurses United (NNU) commemorated national nurses week with visits to multiple members of Congress, a large delegation of RNs – including nurses from DC and Maryland -- called on Senate Finance Committee chair Sen. Orrin Hatch to reject the American Health Care Act (AHCA) passed by the House. They called for Sen. Hatch to instead support real reform, an improved and expanded Medicare for all. NNU members, led by co-presidents RNs Deborah Burger and Jean Ross, delivered a letter for Sen. Hatch to one of his aides, a health adviser, which called the AHCA “a mortal threat to the health and well-being of our patients, and to the health security of our country” that would result in the loss of existing health coverage for tens of millions of people without any restraints on healthcare industry pricing practices. 
photo: Nurses with Senator Chris Van Hollen (D, MD); photo by Korey Hartwich

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