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Laugh, learn and listen to Nurse Talk Radio on Progressive Voices Tune In. You can download the PV APP @www.progressivevoices.com. This week on the show.... Executive Director for Healthcare NOW, Ben Day. Ben talks about the mission of his organization and the national campaign for Expanded and Improved Medicare for All. And our Healthcare in America segment includes a $69 billion-dollar wedding announcement by CVS and Aetna and another outrageous Kaiser Health News bill of the month. All this and more...

Laugh, learn and listen to Nurse Talk Radio on Progressive Voices Tune In. You can download the PV APP @www.progressivevoices.com. This week on the show.... Executive Director for Healthcare NOW, Ben Day. Ben talks about the mission of his organization and the national campaign for Expanded and Improved Medicare for All. And our Healthcare in America segment includes a $69 billion-dollar wedding announcement by CVS and Aetna and another outrageous Kaiser Health News bill of the month. All this and more...

Ben Day is no stranger to the National Single Payer movement. He currently serves as Executive Director of Healthcare NOW and prior to taking on this role he was the Executive Director of MASS-Care, the Massachusetts Campaign for Single Payer Health Care, for eight years.

Ben talks about Healthcare NOW's broad coalition (including National Nurses United) of single payer supporters mobilizing in more than 300 cities across the country to create systematic change from the bottom up which of course includes grassroots educating and organizing. https://www.healthcare-now.org.

Ben Day is no stranger to the National Single Payer movement. He currently serves as Executive Director of Healthcare NOW and prior to taking on this role he was the Executive Director of MASS-Care, the Massachusetts Campaign for Single Payer Health Care, for eight years.

Ben talks about Healthcare NOW's broad coalition (including National Nurses United) of single payer supporters mobilizing in more than 300 cities across the country to create systematic change from the bottom up which of course includes grassroots educating and organizing. https://www.healthcare-now.org.

Author Suzanne Gordon has written an extraordinary book called Wounds Of War How the VA Delivers Health, Healing, And Hope To The Nations Veteran's. Ms. Gordon addresses the current issues of privatization and the unwillingness the current VA Secretary is demonstrating to allow RN's to take part in their rightful collective bargaining process and ultimate protections of their VA patients.

Author Suzanne Gordon has written an extraordinary book called Wounds Of War How the VA Delivers Health, Healing, And Hope To The Nations Veteran's. Ms. Gordon addresses the current issues of privatization and the unwillingness the current VA Secretary is demonstrating to allow RN's to take part in their rightful collective bargaining process and ultimate protections of their VA patients.

Author and journalist Suzanne Gordon joins us for a two-part interview about her new book Wounds Of War, How The VA Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope to The Nations Veterans. Suzanne does an extraordinary job describing how VHA(Veterans Health

Administration)tasked with a challenging patient population---does a better job than private-sector institutions. She also talks about efforts to privatize the system, who's behind it and how efforts are underway right now to do just that.

Author and journalist Suzanne Gordon joins us for a two-part interview about her new book Wounds Of War, How The VA Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope to The Nations Veterans. Suzanne does an extraordinary job describing how VHA(Veterans Health

Administration)tasked with a challenging patient population---does a better job than private-sector institutions. She also talks about efforts to privatize the system, who's behind it and how efforts are underway right now to do just that.

Author and journalist Suzanne Gordon joins us for a two-part interview about her new book Wounds Of War, How The VA Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope to The Nations Veterans. Suzanne does an extraordinary job describing how VHA (Veterans Health Administration) tasked with a challenging patient population---does a better job than private-sector institutions. She also talks about efforts to privatize the system, who's behind it and how efforts are underway right now to do just that.

Author and journalist Suzanne Gordon joins us for a two-part interview about her new book Wounds Of War, How The VA Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope to The Nations Veterans. Suzanne does an extraordinary job describing how VHA (Veterans Health Administration) tasked with a challenging patient population---does a better job than private-sector institutions. She also talks about efforts to privatize the system, who's behind it and how efforts are underway right now to do just that.