Expand Certificate of Need Coverage: Under current law, many segments of the health care delivery system are not covered by CON regulations. Doctors’ practices, for example are not regulated and this has allowed the proliferation and expansion of specialty practices that are not subject to CON approval processes and are able to compete unfairly with vital safety-net hospitals and other facilities. NYSNA supports the extension of CON regulations to all health care providers that are currently excluded from coverage. What is your position on this issue? Strongly Agree Agree No Position Disagree Strongly Disagree ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ Protect the Rights, Working Conditions and Economic Security of Nurses and other Care Providers Restructuring and reform of the health care system that is currently underway is driven largely by the desire to reduce and make the system financially sustainable. Health care is necessarily a labor intensive field of economic activity. As a result, the drive to cut costs will increasingly take the form of an effort to reduce the monetary costs of labor and to intensify the workloads of health care providers. This approach is consistent with a broader tendency in the economy to squeeze down wages and benefits of workers in order to generate higher profits on behalf of owners of capital and operators of businesses. This general tendency has resulted in prolonged wage stagnation and increasing pressure to slash salaries, pensions, health care and other labor costs. It has also led to increased concentrations of wealth and income in fewer and fewer hands and an increasingly precarious and insecure condition for the majority of the population. NYSNA is adamantly opposed to this exploitative and destructive trend and will fight for the rights of nurses, other health care workers and for working people in general. NYSNA supports legislation to provide minimum staffing ratios, limit the hours of work of nurses, effectively limit mandatory overtime, and otherwise allow nurses to fulfill their professional duties under and decent working conditions. What is your position on this issue? Strongly Agree Agree No Position Disagree Strongly Disagree ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ NYSNA supports legislation to provide a safe working environment for nurses and patients, free of threats of violence, managerial abuses and environmental hazards. What is your position on this issue? Strongly Agree Agree No Position Disagree Strongly Disagree ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝
Expand Certificate of Need Coverage: Under current law, many segments of the health care delivery system are not covered by CON regulations. Doctors’ practices, for example are not regulated and this has allowed the proliferation and expansion of specialty practices that are not subject to CON approval processes and are able to compete unfairly with vital safety-net hospitals and other facilities. NYSNA supports the extension of CON regulations to all health care providers that are currently excluded from coverage. What is your position on this issue? ⃝ Strongly Agree ⃝ Agree ⃝ No Position ⃝ Disagree ⃝ Strongly Disagree Protect the Rights, Working Conditions and Economic Security of Nurses and other Care Providers Restructuring and reform of the health care system that is currently underway is driven largely by the desire to reduce and make the system financially sustainable. Health care is necessarily a labor intensive field of economic activity. As a result, the drive to cut costs will increasingly take the form of an effort to reduce the monetary costs of labor and to intensify the workloads of health care providers. This approach is consistent with a broader tendency in the economy to squeeze down wages and benefits of workers in order to generate higher profits on behalf of owners of capital and operators of businesses. This general tendency has resulted in prolonged wage stagnation and increasing pressure to slash salaries, pensions, health care and other labor costs. It has also led to increased concentrations of wealth and income in fewer and fewer hands and an increasingly precarious and insecure condition for the majority of the population. NYSNA is adamantly opposed to this exploitative and destructive trend and will fight for the rights of nurses, other health care workers and for working people in general. NYSNA supports legislation to provide minimum staffing ratios, limit the hours of work of nurses, effectively limit mandatory overtime, and otherwise allow nurses to fulfill their professional duties under and decent working conditions. What is your position on this issue? ⃝ Strongly Agree ⃝ Agree ⃝ No Position ⃝ Disagree ⃝ Strongly Disagree NYSNA supports legislation to provide a safe working environment for nurses and patients, free of threats of violence, managerial abuses and environmental hazards. What is your position on this issue? ⃝ Strongly Agree ⃝ Agree ⃝ No Position ⃝ Disagree ⃝ Strongly Disagree
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