Wow. I never thought I would actually post on this message board but I signed up and had to reply to this crazy post by stuntmovie. You are dead wrong on so many fronts I can't even begin to respond.
"I have a good friend who is a nurse. One weekend, she worked on a Saturday which was not her regular work day and she was paid $1,800 for her eight hours of service."
Sorry in all my years of working in healthcare in many hospitals, Ive yet to experience a nurse that makes more than me, and I am a MD. Either she is the greatest nurse in the known world, or she is lying.
Healthcare costs have nothing to do with the insurance companies since insurance companies do not pay healthcare workers salaries, period, end of story. The insurance companines pay the healthsystem and the money goes into accounts to be taken care of by accountants. They decide where the money goes and who gets what. Healthcare employees espicially nurses have nothing to do with how much they get paid. At our hospital employe pay was averageing 2.5mil a month. Our gross profits are 8 million a month that is profit, after everything is paid as in take to the bank profits. Mostly all profits go back into the health system to build and improve the system since we are nonprofit company, a for profit would go back into the company.
As for your comments of hospital employees getting paid too much, lol. that would be funny if not insulting. I get paid 80hr and I am a ER doctor! Nurses here are at a 22hr min with a RN. LPN are just 15hr. rich huh!
Physical T. 24hr
Nuclear Med. 24hr
Rad Ther. 24hr
Rad Dosimetrist 30hr
Pharmacist 40hr
just to give you a clear idea of what nurses get paid compared to their fellow healthcare workers. Not enough! All my nurses work their asses off and are grossly underpaid! And that is a understatement. I don't call 50yr rich do you? Or overpaid.
No the people who don't take care of themselves and more importantly DON'T HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE!!!!!!! cost the hospital the most amount of money, and this is recouped by whom? The hospital or healthsystem, the hospitals budget for the NONINSURED IS FOUR TIMES THE TOTAL BUDGET TO PAY THE EMPLOYEES, FOUR TIMES. At our hospital it is 10mil on average. They are the reason why our employees DON'T MAKE ENOUGH MONEY PERIOD! It is a vicious cycle, no insurance, higher insurance premiums and cost of insurance, no insurance higher insurance and premiums and so on and so on and so on. You get the picture here. The hospital has to charge four times the cost of one pill to try to recoup the money lost on the noninsured, and in turn the insurance companies have to charge the hospital more for that pill, and the cycle begins, you get the picture right? So please don't make statements on here blaming the health care workers for the insurance problems of this country, because it is just a disservice to our dedicated and hardworking healthcare providers and more importanly WRONG! DEAD WRONG!
