Senate may have the votes to scrap Biden's nursing home staffing mandate
Senate may have the votes to scrap Biden's nursing home staffing mandate
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But nursing home operators and their allies say it's impossible to meet because of persistent health workforce shortages, especially in rural areas, and would force some facilities to close.
This is obvious to anyone that's thought about ramifications of it
We're years into a nursing shortage, so nursing homes would have to compete with hospitals for nurses.
And they can't afford that, so prices will skyrocket and most will close and the elderly won't get any care.
But it's sounds good right before an election if you don't think about anything
The nursing shortage is exacerbated by understaffed facilities. Nurses quit because they're expected to do too much with very little help.
Larger staffing requirements will help this problem, and make it so nurses are not so overworked.
You can't wait until there's no more shortage to improve working conditions, because the poor working conditions are the bulk of the problem.
The bulk of the problem is becoming a nurse (or anything that requires college) is ridiculously expensive
For real. There should be full tuitions for nursing school for anyone who can keep their grades up. Same for medical school.
We need more doctors and nurses. We shouldn't be turning people away just because they don't have money.
Not just "don't have money" they don't want to gamble decades of debt on if they'll both graduate and find and keep a well paying job post graduation.
It used to be that everyone thought it was worth it, now people say it's not.
Like, when you think about, putting that decision on a teenager is pretty fucked.
Like, we just expect them to decide and commit to their entire career path before they've ever worked more than a part time job in highschool?
Education is an investment in societies future, it's why fixing it benefits all of us.
There is a shortage because those jobs require you to wipe asses for minimum wage.
We've got millions of people doing bullshit jobs like social media manager so now we don't have anyone to do the necessary jobs.
So our solution will be to build robots to do the nursing (badly) and AI to do the social media management (badly) and more people will be out of a job.
So it goes...
It sounds good if you don't think about anything