Blog: Policy
Washington State now has been added to the roster of states where people with serious health problems find themselves bankrupt as a result of the costs of care.
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle studied 200,000 cancer patients and found an astonishingly high rate of insolvency for these very sick individuals. The comparison of bankruptcy records with information from the regional cancer registry led to these findings...
They fanned out across the country from Los Angeles to Phoenix, Chicago, south to Atlanta and Miami, to the towns of Western Massachusetts, in New York City and beyond, and they entered offices on Capitol Hill in a national “Educate Congress” letter-drop campaign. 190 members of Congress were delivered this urgent message, a reminder that the country’s deteriorating condition needs to be addressed with meaningful policies that bring...
With the passage in the U.S. Senate Monday of a new sales tax on internet purchasers, activists in the Robin Hood Tax Campaign today asked, “if we can tax the world wide web, why not the world wide banks?”
The Marketplace Fairness Act would target what the National Conference of State Legislatures estimates is $23.3 billion in lost sales tax revenue in 2012 for sales made on line rather than at brick and mortar stores.
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By Chuck Idelson
National Nurses United
First appeared in California Progress Report
They came, they danced, they marched, 2,000 people spirited and strong, Robin Hood's merry band of men and women, through the streets of Washington April 20.
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