Re: Health Care pay decrease with new health care plan? Originally Posted by chrisciwi
Interesting point. i agree wasteful spending needs to be gone. But this new plan should put the care givers out in the cold, because that will drive people and doctors away from hospitals and stuff, and into private practice
It seems private practice is not where the "moneys at" in this particular scenario, ...on the contrary. In reality, private practices will have an especially tough time remaining competitive against the monolithic and nationally funded health care facilities. Keep in mind, "private practice" in this respect is very similar to operating a small family owned hardware store operating next door to large national hardware store chain in comparison. How long can the small hardware store remain competitive when the operational costs are lower, purchasing power is greater and when the majority of all the customers are making major purchasing decisions at the hardware store chain?
I suspect, the majority of customers in this case will also be spending their health care dollars (probably through a form of taxation) and use public funded facilities and not at private practices.
To put this potential customer base in perspective, this currently equates to approx. 87 million potential customers who are currently uninsured in the country. These people are "waiting" to become "public health care customers" also a 75 % majority of the remaining "private health care" customers who are currently paying very high premiums at private insurance companies are also waiting and are planning to "switch" to the public funded health care system in the future.
Not sure exactly what percentage of the population that leaves in terms of customers who are willing to pay more money to use the services of private practices, but I suspect it's a very small percentage of the actual population.
Not sure if that leaves caregivers in the cold exactly, but it does seem it will be providing them with many more "paying customers" than we currently have at the moment. We will definitely not have to "close" any hospitals anytime in the immediate future as currently being demonstrated under our current private heath care system.
If anything, it seems like an anticipated increase in customers will provide many more opportunities for care givers, including the expansion of the nurse practitioner role and noted improvements in staffing levels in the hospital setting.
Remember, hospitals will no longer be a "for profit" venture, so cutting staffing levels to save money and to increase profits does not serve any actual profitable purpose because these are government operated institutions providing the public with a required public service.
Therefore, staffing ratios are more likely to become nationally standardized with respect to served populations, demographics and/or other considerations very similar to how any other public services are functionally operated in the community to serve the publics interest from a city hall and voting taxpayer perspective.
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