Posted on 04/30/2020 2:25:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
At a time when medical professionals are putting their lives at risk, tens of thousands of doctors in the United States are taking large pay cuts.
And even as some parts of the US are talking of desperate shortages in nursing staff, elsewhere in the country many nurses are being told to stay at home without pay.
That is because American healthcare companies are looking to cut costs as they struggle to generate revenue during the coronavirus crisis.
"Nurses are being called heroes," Mariya Buxton says, clearly upset. "But I just really don't feel like a hero right now because I'm not doing my part."
Ms Buxton is a paediatric nurse in St Paul, Minnesota, but has been asked to stay at home.
At the unit at which Ms Buxton worked, and at hospitals across most of the country, medical procedures that are not deemed to be urgent have been stopped. That has meant a massive loss of income.
While she has, until now, retained health insurance benefits through the company she worked for, Ms Buxton is not being paid her salary while she is off work.
"People would always say to me, being a nurse you'll never have to worry about having a job. And here I am, newly 40 years old and unemployed for the first time since I started working," she says.
Although she is supportive of the measures taken to curb the spread of the virus, Ms Buxton worries that the longer hospitals cannot perform regular medical procedures, the more nurses that will find themselves in the same position as her.
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“As ye sow so shall ye reap”
Saving the healthcare system to flatten the surge curve by destroying the healthcare system. Broad-brush policies based on fear and politics instead of science and facts.
lots of people out of work because of our facist government and lying media.
it’s a hoax, bro
Hillary just said it “ we need universal healthcare” . They are working diligently behind the scene like most during this pandemic to achieve their goals
By Aleem Maqbool, Additional reporting by Eva Artesona YET they can’t bring themselves to simply point out the hospitals have not only not been overwhelmed by covid patients, they’re pretty much devoid of patients altogether.
all because non-covid procedures have either been banned or discouraged and the predicted millions of covid victims did not materialise, because it was all fake.
instead, BBC turns it into some class war/social justice kind of story.
Fauci and Brix haven’t missed a paycheck, and still get their mugs on T V occasionally to tell us everything should stay shut down. The Democrats consider them heroes, so who cares how many others suffer?
And Pelosi was pushing for UBI in a recent interview.
What we are dealing with is a government created artificial disaster. The unanswered question is whether it was created by stupidity, ill intent or both.
We’ve been playgued.
Any job that produces a paycheck, is essential. IMHO
I’m tired of this insanity. Tired of the arbitrary impositions and loss of freedoms. Tired of Dr. Fawci and Dr. Scarf.
Both and the governors responsible for halting the routine practice of medicine should be executed. WTF is this?
I wouldn’t be surprised if this is all being driven by insurance companies. Think about it: The money they’re paying out for COVID-19 treatments is far exceeded by the money they’re saving by NOT covering all these other medical procedures that aren’t getting done.
Healthcare workers, the public sector are all finding that out the hard way.
Cancers caught early can cost less to treat. That’s also true for a lot of medical issues. I doubt insurance companies are happy about the delays.
Illustrating what we already know, let a lefty get in touch with his/her inner Hugo Chavez, the countryside will be littered with ‘unintended consequences.’
They’re still allowing those treatments, from everything I’ve seen. But I’ll bet those companies are hoping COVID-19 keeps Grandma hiding at home for the rest of her life instead of scheduling her hip replacement.
My daughter who is a nurse only working a few days a week now.
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