Protecting, Sharing, and Hiding Behind Private Health Data

Health Care

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09142020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      Most of us think our own health is our business, that is until we find out it is big business, and that everyone wants to make it their business.  Health data is now a quiet corporate battlefield and a public issue at the same …

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The Nursing Home Business Model is Deadly

Health Care Labor Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08232020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River     Nursing homes have been a huge source of deaths in the United States during the coronavirus pandemic.  Local 100 represents a number of private and public homes, as well as other healthcare facilities, so has been with our workers at the razor edge.  On a …

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Testing Works, but It Takes Organizing and Resources

Health Care

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08222020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River     If there’s any consensus about dealing with Covid-19, it involves the critical role of testing right now, and a vaccine down the line.  Testing allows all of us and especially public health workers and epidemiologists to identify positive individuals, potential asymptomatic carriers, and, most importantly, …

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