Our analysis adjusted for the following covariates: age, sex, race, income level, payer, major diagnostic categories (subgroupings of diagnosis-related groups), and the Charlson comorbidity index score.
After adjusting for diagnosis, age, sex, race, income level, payer, comorbidity, and weekend admission the overall odds of mortality was higher for patients in hospitals with fewer nurses and staff physicians.
The union is also advocating for a state level single-payer plan that is making its way through the California legislature.
In 2011 the state of Vermont adopted legislation that aims to create the nation's first state-level single-payer health care system, a system that would go well beyond national reform efforts.
This includes an upcoming ballot initiative in my state of Colorado, Amendment 69, which would impose a state-level "single payer" health plan.
Let me be clear there are some progressives enlightened enough to recognize the merits of experimenting with state-level single payer systems, such as Maryland gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous.
Other efforts to enact state-level single-payer systems have fallen flat.
Nixon is running on enacting state-level single-payer health care, while Cuomo is not.
Unlike El-Sayed, 33, and Thanedar, 63, Whitmer does not support state-level single-payer health insurance.
He boasts an ambitious platform that calls for a $15 minimum wage, state-level single-payer health care, paid family leave and free public college tuition. .
