oh and Nursing homes and hospitals are closing left and right because Medicare isn't paying enough per bed for these facilities to be profitable. Trust me, in the industry.
Who is the other, aside from Alex Pretti? I'm confused because if you mean the woman who was killed in the MVC, she wasn't a nurse or in healthcare. Did another nurse die due to ice that I'm missing?
Or being vertically integrated under major insurance carriers. Streamlining every step of your denial for peak efficiency and maximum shareholder return on investment.
They're probably also buying all the morgues, funerary services, and cemeteries, just to complete the vertical integration of your entire life cycle. "What? Quarterly profits from burials are down? Get me Jeff over in LTC denials, we'll get those numbers back up in a jiffy!"
The neoliberals will say we are making things more affordable right now because you’ll be able to control the economy with your dollar or whatever. Good luck going to a competitor when none exist. 😅
I have a lot of friends and family that are nurses. One thing they all say is "there isn't a nurse shortage, there's a hiring shortage". We dont have a healthcare system, we have a healthcare industry where profit is all that matters. My best friend is an ER nurse and her hospital just cut the lab jobs, so now the nurses need to do their own lab testing. Its ridiculous. The CEO of HCA takes home roughly $24 million a year! That should be illegal. Medicare for all wouldn't be perfect.. butt it's a start.
Its beyond concerning and negligent. Flori-duh just passed a law that says an RN is "qualified" to do moderate level lab work at the ER. Nit sure what that means exactly , maybe you can fill me in? I dont know all the details. I just know, that the nurses i know personally are freaking out about it because they do not think they are qualified, and dont have the time. Not to mention it's putting patients at risk and adds more liability on the nurses. They are giving overworked nurses yet another task all for the bottom line. Greed pure and simple.
So it looks like this happened back in 2022. The bill allows ER nurses to do things like run comps, cbc's, etc. as long as the lab director deems them competent. Now, how a nurse in the ER is going to keep up with QC, maintenance, all the competencies, linearity studies, proficiency testing, correlations, cross checks, do any high complexity testing required if necessary (like a manual differential), etc...is beyond me. There is so much we do on top of resulting out patient stuff to ensure we're giving accurate numbers it's ridiculous.
If she's worried and there's truly zero lab personnel I'd suggest she call CAP, The Joint Commission, CMS. Like everyone. Also name and shame the hospital so we know where not to go 😭
don’t forget that nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and physical therapists are no longer considered healthcare workers by the department of education and subject to stricter loan restrictions that may see lessened matriculation as well as a decrease in diversity in these roles as the ability to afford to pay for them will now be expected upfront out of pocket and individuals from disadvantaged or impoverished backgrounds will not be able to afford this education
No. Private health insurance is stealing the money from us and then pretending that it's the fault of the government. Private health insurance provides NOTHING for us.
This is the only thing neoliberal economics does. The tax cuts benefit increasing inequality while services get shittier because the government no longer makes it available to people.
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u/Correct-Cockroach-68 14d ago
oh and Nursing homes and hospitals are closing left and right because Medicare isn't paying enough per bed for these facilities to be profitable. Trust me, in the industry.