I think nurses should definitely be involved in helping us arrive at health care reform. Ideally we'd have representation from everyone involved. Payors. Patients. Nurses. Doctors. Hospitals. That'd be ideal. Because it's not just a matter of what nurses think or what patients do. We have to consider all sides. What a novel concept it would be to represent each involved entity in the creation of health care that actually serves people's health (and our country's).

Nurses are underpaid, it's true. I do hope you'll re-examine your claim that physicians are greedy, however. The last thing people go through four years of A+ college work, four years of grueling study in medical school, and up to 7 years of residency training for is money. If it were greed for money, believe me, no one would ever make it through. There's much more money to be made in other fields. Physicians work that hard because they're interested in helping people and in medical science. The pay in some specialties is quite high, it's true. But you'll be hard put to find physicians in specialties other than cash-for-service fields such as cosmetic surgery who are getting wealthy. Just make sure you're aware of that before you denigrate professionals who work this hard to achieve a medical degree and certification and write them off as greedy. Greedy people don't have to work this hard, frankly.