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The Indian Health Service is funded by the U S Public Health Service. It's budget is over 3 Billion US taxpayers dollars a year. It's operating expenses are from the medicaid, medicare, VA and private insurance rembursement for every patient that wal...

I am not a fan of either one of the two 'reigning' Political Parties in the US either. (I used to be, but experience is the BEST teacher.) I am trying to get away from 'knee jerk' reactions when an issue is brought up for discussion. I can see that y...

:typing Tencat says that "turning healthcare into a business was a mistake", and while I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment behind this remark, Woodenpug has a point, Health Care is not in the Bill of Rights. Neither was Woman's Suffrage, or the...

Good points. To me Health Care Reform is about answering the question; "Is Health Care a right, or is Health Care a privilege"?

Your welcome. My spouse is the SAME way! Us gals gotta stick together in the "mutual appreciation society!" :wink2:

Soyrizo; Thank you so, so much for the link to the article in the New Yorker "The Cost Conundrum". It is THE most interesting article I have ever read about the subject of regional differences in costs in American Health Care. I think I will read it ...

Burnbabybaby would be a GREAT writer if he was not just 'retelling' the events that happened to his patient. It must have been a terrifying experience! :roll:

Trial and error, that's the way to do it. But it is interesting that you are thinking about this. To me that shows a meticulous person, I mean, how many people even THINK about socks, before they start working, and I agree, they are important. I like...

The Army is not for you, OK. Just a suggestion, the pay checks don't bounce, and many, many people who needed a 'new start' and needed a way to get out of financial 'dire straits' have gone this route, when their back was against the wall, so to spe...

I do have a suggestion. If you ever were to consider attending a BSN program, it would be good practice to practice communicating in a clear, standard English fashion. I know that if you graduated Valedictorian, you know how to do this. I know that T...

I have worked with nurses who did this, use the I Pod/Phone to pull up lab values and ect. I see that more physicians are doing this also. Seems to work for them, and it certainly impressed me! The idea about videos streams of infrequently preformed ...

Don't waste any more of your time getting a BSN the way you are feeling now. If you want to change careers, and have the family support and wherewithal to do it then do it. Keep your nursing license up to date, and keep working, if only PRN, or part ...

Yes, you are getting the shaft. Just look at how much $ all your hard work is making that 'Big Corporation'. I'll bet when you bring up your issues you get thrown a bone with a little meat on it, because you are making $$ for them. Look at it like t...

Oh come on, she probably wasn't actually dead when whoever it was was feeding her. I am not trying to vindicate the stuff that is discussed here, I have seen most of it, or a similar version myself. A lot of you nurses are going to be like me, you wo...

What is a 'Daytime TV College'? What does it mean to 'push the lay person to RN in 10 shifts'? Just wondering. The poster above does have a point. There are a lot of colleges in the US that charge 40 grand a year. After I posted about the demise of t...

The most knowledgeable all around nurses I ever worked with were 'Diploma' School graduates. What did nursing do in it's infinite wisdom? Get rid of most of the Diploma Schools and insisted that Nurses be trained in Colleges. This sort of silliness ...

Perhaps health care for all should be referred to by the title 'Universal Health Care'. There are so many people, especially in the US, who have mental 'blinders' that come down the minute the word 'socialized' anything is used. One could argue that...

The end of an America that "consisted of a bunch of independent and self sufficient states...that had...total sovereignty over thier laws, religions, culture and way of life"was bloody and public and happened in 1865. The Civil War, or, the War Betwe...

Taxes.....hummm, good question. When I worked in Germany the tax rate was roughly something like this for a middle income couple. One paid 50% taxes. One paid 33% taxes. Of course, the one with the HIGHER income would pay the 33% tax, if possible. Th...

Do you notice that there do not see to be any 'guy' voices in this discussion! (Maybe I am wrong, I just didn't pick up on it) To a certain extent we nurses have to face up to the fact that Nursing, and Health Care, in the US today, is big, big busin...

Interesting, lamazeteacher, your post points out how a health care system reflects the mores of the society in which it is found, not necessarly the view of each individual in that society. In the descriptions of 'Universial Health Care' systems in o...

Wow, do I ever sound pedagogic above! I mean I, and We (because of the 'continuning ed requirments) and especially Me! Also I don't want to sound like I am dictating lifestyles to anybody. I just know when I got 'removed' from my job I had debt- ov...

Oh you poor nurses, my heart goes out to you. Really. I went through my own 'dark night of the soul'. It took me a long, long time to get over it, but it changed me, really changed me, changed my belief system and changed my life, all, I now know, fo...

The following is from the 'Neue Post' a very popular magazine, that's been around a long time and is published in Germany. It is kind of like a cross between 'People' and 'Good Houskeeping'. I want to add this because I know that my above post has...

I am curious, when you say the patients with a low survival chance are 'discarded', what does this mean in actual practice? Also I wonder how can care preformed EVER excede the resources available, except in a 'fairy tail' report prepared for managem...