I agree the US health system is failing. But I'm not particularly worried about saving hospitals (or any other part of the current, completely corrupt system), and I don't think we want to encourage governments and politicians to involve themselves any more than they already have in making this mess. Hospitals were dysfunctional before Covid, and they became killing fields during the so-called pandemic. Between vaccine mandates for patients and employees alike, mandatory mask wearing that forced already ill patients and overworked nurses to wear bacteria-contaminated face coverings while re-breathing oxygen-depleted air, and Covid protocols that included toxic medicines like remdesivir while denying patients access to safe, effective and cheap medicines like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, nutraceuticals like vitamin C and zinc, and basic fluids and nutrition, hospitals caused enormous harm and death and revealed themselves to be fundamentally corrupt. Many people now realize hospitals are fundamentally dangerous and don't care about what's best for patients. If the author is right, and if hospitals really are losing billions of dollars and are no longer sustainable, their mass failure wouldn't be all bad. Like the hopelessly corrupt federal, state, and local public health agencies, hospitals are a huge part of the corrupt healthcare establishment. It all should be torn asunder so we can start over, this time with a sincere commitment to the Hippocratic oath.
I agree with all of this and we have similar issues in WA State. I feel most bad for patients in great need—who may have no one to advocate for them. In 35 years of medical practice I have never before seen such conditions in healthcare.
I am graduating as an RN in May. I turned down medical school to be a PA in 2018. I Thank God for this excellent guidance. I would have more than likely been unemployeed and owed $200 thousand as soon as the "mandates" rolled out. Completing my current degree has not been easy. I'm a 4.0 gpa and my school kicked me out, becuase of the choice I made, for 9 months. I endeavored to perservere. I have been a care provider and have administered medications for 20 years. My own small child passed away of a rare terminal genetic illness at 8 years old in 2011. I also took care intellectually and developmentally disabled adults for 6 years, 2014-2020, 9000 hours direct client care. I've just never really been finacially compensated for care providing. Hopefully now I will be. I want to live in Hawaaii but will work on a reservation for my first two years to get my loans paid back.
I agree the US health system is failing. But I'm not particularly worried about saving hospitals (or any other part of the current, completely corrupt system), and I don't think we want to encourage governments and politicians to involve themselves any more than they already have in making this mess. Hospitals were dysfunctional before Covid, and they became killing fields during the so-called pandemic. Between vaccine mandates for patients and employees alike, mandatory mask wearing that forced already ill patients and overworked nurses to wear bacteria-contaminated face coverings while re-breathing oxygen-depleted air, and Covid protocols that included toxic medicines like remdesivir while denying patients access to safe, effective and cheap medicines like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, nutraceuticals like vitamin C and zinc, and basic fluids and nutrition, hospitals caused enormous harm and death and revealed themselves to be fundamentally corrupt. Many people now realize hospitals are fundamentally dangerous and don't care about what's best for patients. If the author is right, and if hospitals really are losing billions of dollars and are no longer sustainable, their mass failure wouldn't be all bad. Like the hopelessly corrupt federal, state, and local public health agencies, hospitals are a huge part of the corrupt healthcare establishment. It all should be torn asunder so we can start over, this time with a sincere commitment to the Hippocratic oath.
I agree with all of this and we have similar issues in WA State. I feel most bad for patients in great need—who may have no one to advocate for them. In 35 years of medical practice I have never before seen such conditions in healthcare.
I am graduating as an RN in May. I turned down medical school to be a PA in 2018. I Thank God for this excellent guidance. I would have more than likely been unemployeed and owed $200 thousand as soon as the "mandates" rolled out. Completing my current degree has not been easy. I'm a 4.0 gpa and my school kicked me out, becuase of the choice I made, for 9 months. I endeavored to perservere. I have been a care provider and have administered medications for 20 years. My own small child passed away of a rare terminal genetic illness at 8 years old in 2011. I also took care intellectually and developmentally disabled adults for 6 years, 2014-2020, 9000 hours direct client care. I've just never really been finacially compensated for care providing. Hopefully now I will be. I want to live in Hawaaii but will work on a reservation for my first two years to get my loans paid back.