For the last month or so I have been reading many news stories of Nurses being layed off from hospitals across the country. Along with layoffs many hospitals are doing hiring freezes. I remember back in the 1990's when Hillary care came about, many hospitals did hiring freezes, even if a nurse quit they were not replaceing the nurses.
The scope of whats going on today is 10 fold worse than the 1990's. Hospitals are laying off nurses by the hundreds each and every day. Some hospitals are firing nurses on the slightest infraction.
The difference of the 1990's and today is that the economy is so bad many people have lost their jobs. No jobs, no health insurance, less admissions, less census. To add more pain to the situation many hospitals are claiming the decrease in medicare funds in payment from state governments, which leads to layoffs.
I remember back in the 1990's a friend of mine went to school for IT, after all, companies were taking students who didnt even finish the school because they needed people so bad. My poor friend started the school to late the dot com bubble came and he couldnt find a job in IT any where in the country! He went back to his faithful job as a RN only to be layed off. After 300 applications sent around the country he still hasnt found a job in med surg. Hospitals will not start to re-hire until the economy picks up and the unemployment goes below 8%. For people looking for a career in nursing dont think that nursing is a recession proof job, it isnt. Most new students who graduater cant even find a job, you may be better off going into therapy, OT jobs for now.
as a result of changes in direct spending and revenues, cbo expects that enacting h.r. 2 would probably increase federal budget deficits over the 2012-2019 period by a total of roughly $145 billion (on the basis of the original estimate), plus or minus the effects of technical and economic changes that cbo and jct will include in the forthcoming estimate. adding two more years (through 2021) brings the projected increase in deficits to something in the vicinity of $230 billion, plus or minus the effects of technical and economic changes.
the gop just loves the congressional budget office, just so long as the party likes what it's hearing. on the other hand, republicans consider the cbo unreliable and worthless when its information runs counter to their agenda.
with that in mind, republicans will be none too pleased to hear from cbo director doug elmendorf today, who explains that repealing the affordable care act "would increase budget deficits" by quite a bit. (via matt finkelstein).
Mediajunkie: when has any government program EVER come in on or under budget? When have cost projections ever been anything other than grossly understated? And does this positive spin include the cost of the medicare "doc fix"? From what I have read, it does not. If repealing Obamacare (or "Dole Care" if you prefer, I don't care about political party) reduces revenue, it's only because it removes the TAX implications of it (a good thing, imo).
BTW, since when has it ever been in the Federal government's Constitutional mandate to derive revenue from the control of health care, or to force citizens to purchase a specific product under threat of financial penalty?
I agree with looking into PT, OT. I noticed that those are the only jobs available in my area on a daily basis and new graduates are welcome to apply.
A good site to follow up on layoffs and company closings is dailyjobcuts.com. I haven't followed this site religiously but noticed hospital closings and health care related layoffs.
Smoke and mirrors; the economic crash had nothing to do with healthcare reform. It was an unregulated financial bubble burst that we ended up paying for while the crooks continued with bonuses.
I don't have anything to contribute to the essence of this thread, but reading references to the economic crash, I'm just curious as to opinions as to how it happened. As the saying goes, "when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches cold." One hears of "trillions of $$$ being lost", but is money ever lost? Or is it just siphoned to someone else's pocket?
I would have expected many countries to experience a severe economic crisis, given the ongoing Middle Eastern strife, and the amount of money being thrown at it. How much impact do you think this has had on your economy?
Scary that healthcare costs are still escalating in the double digits. It's not everyday, but there have been a rash of layoffs with several news stories each month. A good source is AllPinkSlips.com. Here's a few news links with hospitals, clinics, etc from the last month or so.
Would love to see the breakdown of how many of these layoffs are from for-profit facilities and how those companies' profits and stock prices are doing.
... we released a preliminary analysis of that legislation indicating that, over the 2012-2021 period, the effect of enacting h.r. 2 on the federal budget as a result of changes in direct spending and revenues is likely to be an increase in deficits in the vicinity of $230 billion, plus or minus the effects of forthcoming technical and economic changes to cbo's and jct's projections for that period.
we have been asked to provide the revenue and direct spending components of that total. extrapolating the estimated budgetary effects of the original health care legislation and accounting for the effects of subsequent legislation, cbo anticipates that enacting h.r. 2 would probably yield, for the 2012-2021 period, a reduction in revenues in the neighborhood of $770 billion and a reduction in outlays in the vicinity of $540 billion, plus or minus the effects of forthcoming technical and economic changes to cbo's and jct's projections....
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