Do You Think Obama’s Healthcare Bill Will Affect Those In The Health Care Industry Negitively?
I am a nurse and I can tell you we are streched to our limit. When they say there is a shortage of nurses, its because we are overloaded and expected to care for alot of patients. More then we can handle at times. I have an average of 7 patients a night. They are all very sick, and if you have ever cared for a very sick person, imagine that time 7 with alot of paperwork and charting on top of it. No one can imagine how it is to have people screeming in pain others with difficulty breathing, others vomiting, others with irregular heart rates and blood pressures, all at the same time. Along with admissions, doctors orders, pharmacy problems, ect.. I can tell you last night i worked, i had 3 patients on a ventalator, (one Swine Flu, one TB, one resp. failer) the other 4 were other problems MRSA infection, post surgical, conjestive heart failer. I'm affraid of what will happen if we get a surge of patients after the health care bill. Wage control, ect.... What does that mean for us?
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September 25th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
I was in the hospital overnight a month ago and I was talking to the night nurse, she told me they were all pulling 12 hour shifts because of shortages and there are also doctor shortages…up to 50% of the nurses and doctors today are baby boomers so within the next 5 years the shortages will worsen. I have been saying all along if the Democrats do manage to push their health care bill through there will be as many as 46 million new patients injected into an already stretched medical system. Obama talks about spending stimulus money on infrastructure like repaving roads and caulking windows when he should be spending it on the infrastructure of our medical system. These shortages will cause health care rationing, its simple logic.
September 25th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
I have more respect for the nurses than I do for the Dr.’s. If all of the Dr.’s who say that they will shut down and retire if this plan passes, there will be a major negative affect on the health care industry unless of course Obama mandates a forced work policy which, considering what he’s done and trying to do, would not surprise anyone. That would even be a worse affect.
September 26th, 2009 at 2:11 am
Obama and the Democrats are going to open the flood gates for the medical field.
What they should do is try this in a test area.
Oh wait they did in Hawaii and it failed miserably~a fact Obama fails
to mention~how sad for the average American and the care givers
September 26th, 2009 at 8:53 am
I brought a person to the hospital the other day and there was about 30 people there. 4 white, 4 black 10 mexican,12 Somalian. Something is really wrong with that. I felt like a minority in my own country.
September 26th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Obama’s health care will save billions, his new approach to health care will be what many Doctors prescribe, take 2 asperins and call me in the morning. Yeah for Obama health care.
September 26th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Obama-care will affect EVERYONE negatively! Oops, except the government since they get to extract our money.
September 26th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
It won’t only be the health care industry affected negatively if that nonsense passes.
September 26th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
The big question is: How are the insurance PROVIDERS in the equation?
September 27th, 2009 at 4:11 am
I’m quite sure that passing the healthcare bill will only cause additional sickness (probably nausea) in the overpaid ranks of insurance industry executives. There won’t be more traumas unless the loons carrying guns to townhall meetings start to use them.
I don’t think this will make you busier as a nurse, but I might recommend buying some stock in Pepto Bismol!
September 27th, 2009 at 10:47 am
From the sounds of it, you work in acute care, which means that will not change. Remember, no one in the USA is denied emergency care (though they can go bankrupt as a result of it). The idea of his reforms is to deal with non-emergency care.
FACT – Insurance companies in the USA admit to pushing up prices, buying politicians and not paying out claims when they should
FACT – PER PERSON the USA spends more on healthcare than any other nation on the planet
FACT – Obama debated his plans before the election for healthcare
FACT – the chance of a child under five of dying in the USA is greater than industrialised nations with universal health coverage
FACT – Obama was elected by the American people to bring in change
FACT – Obama wants to stop insurance companies from screwing the American people
FACT – The reforms Obama wants work in the Netherlands and Switzerland
September 27th, 2009 at 11:01 am
The health care industry is out to make money…and the best way is to use less people. I have always thought that the Doctors and the Nurses, the TRUE health care professions were not compensated for their efforts. You need to look to the hospital administrators for making the decision to under staff the hospital. The insurance companies, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies are ALL out to make a profit to deliver high salaries for the CEOs, lobbyists and share holders and are all driven by the greed of Wall Street!
Is there any guidelines that state the ratio of patient to nurses? Do you have a union? People don’t like unions, but what I have found when I was a manager, the Unions can better articulate the issue.
I think we need to take Wall Street completely out of the health care industry! Can you talk with the Shift supervisor…clearly you have too much responsibility! Hopefully the true health care providers will be in charge once again of our health care system! Hopefully more staff to take care of the sick people, but I wonder how many people went without health care to the point they got seriously ill. Had they had medical care earlier, they would not be in the declining state.
I am hoping that the health care reform allows people to seek medical attention early.
I think you should write to the White House and ask your question.