Geri Jenkins, RN, co-President of the National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association, had this to say about the propsed GOP health plan:

"The GOP has proposed a re-arranging of the financing for the sinking private insurance industry - guaranteeing more profits for the insurers at taxpayer expense. Individuals would be at the mercy of low benefit catastrophic plans that would offer no guarantee of providing the care our patients need, and they re-direct monies from care for low-income Americans into bank-sponsored individual health savings accounts. This bailout puts the insurance and financial industries first and patients last."

Do you agree with her? If the NNOC/CNA officially took this stand, would you support them?

I am a long time republican and firmly against the democrats universal health care plans, but I can not abide by this GOP plan either.  Right now I am really upset with every one in the government and their responses to health care. I know it is a very complicated situation, but there has to be some way that it can be worked out without extremely high taxes, government control or bail outs of the insurance and financial institutions. 

I would not support any of the plans that have been proposed so far.