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If nurses make $250/hr then how much the doctors make?
(Mind you that to be a nurse one need HS diploma and 2 years nursing school. Not bad...)
We all pay for that.
What nurse makes $250/hr? That would be well over $500,000 a year. The nurses I know make between $70- $80 a year, with my cousin who is a specialist making $150,000.
A traveling nurse is the employee of an agency, not a hospital. The agency bills the hospital a rate to cover their cost plus a profit. Their costs includes recruiting, hourly rate, travel expense and usually corporate housing.
Traveling nurses are not being paid $500,000 a year. They are however, compensated much better than RNs in a hospital. Critical care nursing especially during overnight shifts tend to make the most.
Hilarious. The salaries that need to be capped and be in line with the salary of the average working American are the politicians. No reason whatsoever they should be making $175 grand a year, plus all their lavish benefits.
And you want to get to the root of the high cost of medical care. Look at big pharma who are the ones that charge high prices for the meds, equipment and sterilized tools. Not to mention the overpaid hospital administrators that can be in the 6 digits.
And there is no reason for nurse shortages. It's one of the biggest growing fields out there.
I agree, politicians forget that they work for us, not the other way around. Unlike nurses, the politicians aren’t worth what they are being paid.
The hospital lobby has made the unprescedented move to request that legislation be introduced to cap nurses salaries. ...
I don't disagree with the gist of your post., but your subject line stated a "congressional move to limit nurse salaries".
Actually, it is the effort of a well financed industrial lobby. It will not be "congressional" until some member of congress sponsors a bill. This lobby is asking 'someone' to introduce a bill.
Whom will that be? Must be someone who has accepted their money in the past.
I don't think we shall see any Democrats in the house sign on to it, other than someone with the pro-special interest values of Kyrsten Sinema or Joe Manchin (both being senators, not sure if it would start there). Keep us posted.
I agree, politicians forget that they work for us, not the other way around. ...
You forget that they don't work for you any more. That ship sailed a long time ago.
We live in a world today where members of congress don't do town halls much, if at all, and they will NOT take your phone call.
Yet, they spend many hours almost every week talking to someone. They all get phone bank time ... and attend fund raisers, and they speak to big heeled donors with fat wallets all over the country. Nearly all of the time these people do NOT live in the district, nor even in the state! The money is green just the same.
These house and senate denizens listen to their thoughts, their concerns ... their hopes for the future, and their suggestions about how they (the politician) could help. After some reassuring comments and promises, the money flows.
Those are the real constituents, not us. That money goes to spread propaganda around the district to convince us to vote for them, and we unwittingly assent to all the back room promises, usually to our detriment.
Something has to give, or we will face a national healthcare crisis.
Well there it is. Something does have to give and it would be a perfect time to usher in socialized medicine which was the plan all along when Obama drove up the cost of private healthcare insurance with his Obamacare debacle.
Thanks Hawkeye. Most of us with skill sets to work in travel assignments are professionals. The fact that congress says that nurses make to much money is
One of the few tools a POTUS has to fight inflation is the ability to impose a Wage/Price freeze and subsequent controls as Nixon did by EO in 1970. Most economists seem to be in agreement, this was not a good move.
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It's a simple case of supply and demand, exasberated by Covid. As hospitalizations get back to normal, so will supply and demand. I would bet that if all Nursing was unionized, controlling nurses pay would be untouchable. Wake up all you nurses and unionize! It would serve the greedy hospitals right. Most hospitals if not all are run by greedy corporations.
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There is a long term global nursing shortage. The world is their oyster.
The percentage of males nurses increases every year.
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Good post!
My son was a traveling nurse for years. It was very lucrative, but lacked benefits so after a long time he became a staff nurse in California at one of the nation's best hospitals. That was before Covid.
Now I see hospitals are recruiting foreign nurses to try to reduce the financial impact of hiring so many travelers. This not only increases the number of foreign workers we let in to take American jobs, but it exacerbates the problems their home countries are facing to staff their own hospitals. It seems like a lose-lose situation.
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Must be someone who has accepted their money in the past.
