Nurse Leader Criticizes Reliance on Charity Care

In an opinion piece, Rose Anne DeMoro -- executive director of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee and a vice president of AFL-CIO -- criticizes the U.S.'s "reliance on charity rather than a public safety net." She calls for "a streamlined, more effective system than our current nightmare, based on care not insurance, by expanding and extending Medicare to cover everyone."

• "Readers Forum: Let's Stop Counting on Charity To Pay Medical Bills" (DeMoro, Contra Costa Times, 1/2).