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Old 09-02-2009, 10:18 AM
 
Location: San Diego California
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NHS could cut 6,500 nurse jobs as recession bites | News | Nursing Times

In this article it states that 6500 Nurses will be potentially laid off in Britain, despite the negative effects it will have on patient care. Once government takes over a health care system, it is vulnerable to the same budget cuts as every other governmental department when the inevitable reckoning of wasteful government spending can no longer be postponed. Governments are painfully negligent when it come to budgets and fiscal responsibility, and yet we have proponents of socialized medicine are adamant that government is the answer. After all they have shown us how wonderfully they can run the VA hospitals. Just ask any Gulf War Veteran about the compassionate, timely care they receive.
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Old 09-02-2009, 10:19 AM
 
Location: Texas
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And here nurses can get a job in 5 minutes in the private system. Tell me what system is better!
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Old 09-02-2009, 10:20 AM
 
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Good thing none of the legislation in progress is proposing a government-run health care system.

Did you have a point?
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Old 09-02-2009, 10:25 AM
 
Location: mancos
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And here nurses can get a job in 5 minutes in the private system. Tell me what system is better!
thats the problem obama wants to correct that. nurses are greedy and need to share in the misery
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Old 09-02-2009, 10:28 AM
 
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No, for the millionth time, we don't want to establish a national health service where doctors and nurses are employed by the government. The issue is to provide health insurance for the public.

Why is this so hard to understand?
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Old 09-02-2009, 10:32 AM
 
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And here nurses can get a job in 5 minutes in the private system. Tell me what system is better!
Is that a good thing? A job that critical which is in such low demand. Why are so many nurses voluntarily leaving the current system?
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Old 09-02-2009, 10:42 AM
 
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No, for the millionth time, we don't want to establish a national health service where doctors and nurses are employed by the government. The issue is to provide health insurance for the public.

Why is this so hard to understand?
It's hard to understand because I have asked a couple of times here on CD how much it will cost me for that public insurance policy and no one has answered me yet. Maybe you have the answer.
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Old 09-02-2009, 10:44 AM
 
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And here nurses can get a job in 5 minutes in the private system. Tell me what system is better!
And be nice to your nurse or that next shot may just hurt just a little..LOL
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Old 09-02-2009, 10:46 AM
 
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It's hard to understand because I have asked a couple of times here on CD how much it will cost me for that public insurance policy and no one has answered me yet. Maybe you have the answer.

It depends on which plan you choose. There will be several choices of coverage of varying prices under the public option. And naturally, those price points have not been set yet.
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Old 09-02-2009, 10:50 AM
 
Location: Sierra Vista, AZ
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From reading the link I get, that "the number of nurses has increased every year for the past decade"
perhaps they have enough. I think the operative word is" potential", in other words it hasn't happened it is a proposal
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