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I would really like to know how you believe Obama care will affect the medical field and be honest. I would expect that it would create more jobs but the work would be very tiring. There would be no 3/12 but 4/12 or 3/15 with rooming/bedding at hospital.

Specializes in Going to Peds!.

Of course it won't be perfect. And there's gonna be a lot of missteps along the way. And people will **** & moan about it.

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I agree with you, Healthcare run by Ins co. is a mess. It will definitely improve when ran by the IRS. I look forward to all Americans having their health issue placed in a Federal data base. It will be a wonderful day when the %47 of Americans that have still managed to keep their full time jobs get the privilege of paying for the healthcare of everyone else as they should. ACA - what a great concept .

The nation's largest drug store chain Walgreens is changing the health care plan for 160,000 of its employees as a result of Obamacare, among the latest employers to make changes as the law's further implementation moves closer.

The new plan will reportedly force employees to pay for more of their health care costs, as the company seeks to avoid the rising costs resulting from the law.

The Wall Street Journal reports, "Aside from rising health-care costs, the company cited compliance-related expenses associated with the new law as a reason for the switch."

Two months ago Walgreens announced it would help promote the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, along with Blue Cross Blue Shield, in the lead up to the health care exchanges opening on Oct. 1. The two companies launched a website in July and promised to distribute brochures.

In January, the individual mandate is set to kick in, requiring every American to buy health insurance.

News of yet another company having price troubles comes the same week that President Barack Obama said predictions that rates would rise under the health care law hasn't happened.

"There were lot of the horror stories, how this would shoot rates way up, how there were going to be death panels, and all that stuff. None of that's happened," Obama said Monday.

H/T The Weekly Standard

I agree with you, Healthcare run by Ins co. is a mess. It will definitely improve when ran by the IRS. I look forward to all Americans having their health issue placed in a Federal data base. It will be a wonderful day when the %47 of Americans that have still managed to keep their full time jobs get the privilege of paying for the healthcare of everyone else as they should. ACA - what a great concept .

The nation’s largest drug store chain Walgreens is changing the health care plan for 160,000 of its employees as a result of Obamacare, among the latest employers to make changes as the law’s further implementation moves closer.

The new plan will reportedly force employees to pay for more of their health care costs, as the company seeks to avoid the rising costs resulting from the law.

The Wall Street Journal reports, “Aside from rising health-care costs, the company cited compliance-related expenses associated with the new law as a reason for the switch.”

Two months ago Walgreens announced it would help promote the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, along with Blue Cross Blue Shield, in the lead up to the health care exchanges opening on Oct. 1. The two companies launched a website in July and promised to distribute brochures.

In January, the individual mandate is set to kick in, requiring every American to buy health insurance.

News of yet another company having price troubles comes the same week that President Barack Obama said predictions that rates would rise under the health care law hasn’t happened.

“There were lot of the horror stories, how this would shoot rates way up, how there were going to be death panels, and all that stuff. None of that’s happened,” Obama said Monday.

H/T The Weekly Standard

So you don't think there should be health care reform? Do you think it's just fine the way it is?

Explain to me how it's more cost effective for someone who is uninsured, who couldn't afford to go to a PCP and get some BP meds eventually develops heart failure, and is admitted to the hospital for a week, and can't pay for ANY of it. Who do you think ends up paying for that?

You act like all people who don't have full time jobs are lazy, as if it's their fault they are uninsured. Its ridiculous that the majority of Americans have to rely on their place of employment to be able to have affordable health insurance. And what about people who CAN pay for insurance, but couldn't get it because they have a preexisting condition? I guess that's fine with you, as long as YOU have health insurance and can go to the doctor when you need to.

Specializes in Critical-care RN.

Anyone that reads the Weekly Standard most be smart :sarcastic:

Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
Its ridiculous that the majority of Americans have to rely on their place of employment to be able to have affordable health insurance.

*** It certainly is for a variety of reasons. One that few ever think about is the HUGE disadvantage it places American companies in. Companies like Ford who have a huge obligation for the health care of the their employees and retirees are at a significant disadvantage when competing with companies in countries where they are not responsible for that cost.

Want to maximum number of American jobs shipped over seas? Fight against single payer!

Lets see if Republican will defund it. Keep watching folks ;)

Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
Lets see if Republican will defund it. Keep watching folks ;)

They can TRY to; but the law was written that, in reality, they CAN'T defund it...they won't tell the uninformed public THAT. :blink:

Specializes in "Wound care - geriatric care.

I think we can't predict the future it's been proven again and again. The only certainty is that we don't really know what the impact of Obamacare will be 1-2 years from now. I guess another certainty is that our health care needs some kind of reform and Obamacare is a step in that direction?...

Specializes in Critical-care RN.

Please don't say that single payer is not good for the working poor and middle class America...

I think we can't predict the future it's been proven again and again. The only certainty is that we don't really know what the impact of Obamacare will be 1-2 years from now. I guess another certainty is that our health care needs some kind of reform and Obamacare is a step in that direction?...

Thank you. I'm trying to stay positive as well. Something HAD to be done about the lack of options for so many. There will be problems and adjustment will need to be made, but doing nothing would be wrong. How can a country as "great" as ours be so uncaring when it comes to the uninsured & underinsured?

Specializes in Critical care, tele, Medical-Surgical.
Emory Health Care in Atlanta knows what to do to prepare for the ACA. Click on the link and wonder how it will be like a few years from now?

Healthcare Co to Lay Off Over 100 Employees, Cites Obamacare...

The reporter did not get the correct story.

I'm not sure this is the whole story either.

No, Obamacare Isn't the Reason Emory Is Laying Off 101 Staffers

... the real story behind Emory's layoffs is more complex than what WSB reported, and doesn't really fit into the Obamacare debate. It's really about the changing practice of psychiatry....

... In interviews Sunday, Emory Healthcare's CEO and a nurse executive who made the announcement directly contradicted a quote attributed to Vince Dollard, the spokesman who talked to WSB last week.

I spoke with Dollard, who read me his notes for his conversation with the station: "We are looking at an uncertain future. The healthcare landscape is uncertain. The ACA is part of that environment. The economy also plays a role."

But WSB quoted him as saying, "In part, the new health-care law President Obama pushed for played a role in the layoffs." Dollard told me that he was trying to make a more nuanced point than what WSB reported. We'll get to that in a minute. ...

... I spoke with Emory's chief nursing executive, Susan Grant. Grant gave the presentation multiple times last Monday and Tuesday, and told me that the words "Obamacare," "ACA," and "health reform" never came up, either in her talk or the question-and-answer periods that followed.

The layoffs of nurses and other support staff, which will happen in November, are coming entirely out of the in-patient psychiatry program, she told me, which is currently spread over two facilities. Grant says that these changes have nothing to do with Obamacare -- rather, represent Emory trying to respond to patient and community needs.

Grant added that she expects Emory's demand for nurses to continue to grow, and if anything thinks the ACA will contribute to that growth....

... Many health-care economists agree, noting that increased access to medical care under the ACA and the nation's aging population are likely to increase demand for health-care workers. An analysis by William Custer, director of the Center for Health Services Research at Georgia State University, found that if Georgia took advantage of the ACA's Medicaid expansion (which Governor Nathan Deal opposes), the state would generate 70,343 additional jobs contributing $8.2 billion to the state's economic output. ...

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/no-obamacare-isnt-the-reason-emory-is-laying-off-101-staffers/279689/

Specializes in Critical-care RN.

Don't Worry.Be Happy:up:

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