Healthcare Reform and nursing...question

[AntonellaB]

Hello everyone,

How does the new healthcare reform will affect nursing? Since there will be less reimbursement for services and less money to hospitals will hospitals cut back on nursing staffing? Does anyone know what's going to happen? If the times get so bad perhaps, it will be time to move to a country with already established universal healthcare and in need of more nurses. All answers are appreciated.

Thanks and Happy New Year!

[Onekidneynurse]

Hello everyone,

How does the new healthcare reform will affect nursing? Since there will be less reimbursement for services and less money to hospitals will hospitals cut back on nursing staffing? Does anyone know what's going to happen? If the times get so bad perhaps, it will be time to move to a country with already established universal healthcare and in need of more nurses. All answers are appreciated.

Thanks and Happy New Year!

Here's some info.

http://www.worldsalaries.org/professionalnurse.shtml

[Man In Black]

The data is over five years old.....

[Onekidneynurse]

The data is over five years old.....

So you think it's changed that much. Do you think Canada or Romania have surpassed us? Have you found anything NEWER. You do realize that the last census in the USA was 10 years ago? So any data on the USA citizens is 10 years old.

[herring_RN, ASN, BSN]

Plenty ways to find more up to date information on United States pay rates:

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Registered_Nurse_(RN)/Hourly_Rate

[Onekidneynurse]

Plenty ways to find more up to date information on United States pay rates:

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Registered_Nurse_(RN)/Hourly_Rate

I believe the OP wanted to know if it might be better to leave the USA and work some where else, money wise. Therefore, I believe we should be comparing US salaries to other countries. Especially those with UHC.

[herring_RN, ASN, BSN]

Sorry. I thought someone claimed that any data on USA citizens is 10 years old.

I wanted to unform allnurses readers that there is information available.

I love my job and my colleagues. Not looking to go elsewhere.

[GCTMT]

Hello everyone,

How does the new healthcare reform will affect nursing? Since there will be less reimbursement for services and less money to hospitals will hospitals cut back on nursing staffing? Does anyone know what's going to happen? If the times get so bad perhaps, it will be time to move to a country with already established universal healthcare and in need of more nurses. All answers are appreciated.

Thanks and Happy New Year!

No one knows the answer to your questions. We'll just have to wait and see.

[Onekidneynurse]

No one knows the answer to your questions. We'll just have to wait and see.

Wait and see is always a great strategy..........

[memememe]

It's not looking too good. Healthcare professionals, unlike say insurance or pharmaceutical companies, do not have cohesive representation, which means we have much more limited bargaining power. Therefore we are the easiest thing to cut. We will be taking the biggest hit on this reform- not only in hidden taxes but also in reduced salary and in worse working conditions.

[luvRNs, BSN, MSN, RN]

looks like it's going to pass.... One thing we DIDN'T discuss here was that most of na individual's health care spend is in the final two years of life. If the worry about funding this is no longer an issue, many of us who have been frugal can now be more liberal with our spending, thus providing an unanticipated economic boost

[elkpark]

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This is an absurd description of the bill as written, which, unfortunately, amounts to little more than minor tweaking around the edges of our existing, private-for-profit-insurance-company-run "system," which remains intact with only some minor modifications. If you like the crap, overpriced, ineffective, unproductive "system" we've got now, you've got little to worry about ...