How did we go from “flatten the curve to ensure hospitals can cope with the influx of patients”
to
“please ensure hospitals remain more empty than they have ever been and then close down & then fire a million healthcare workers”
This is utter utter utter insanity and has to stop. We are killing and ruining the lives and futures of millions of people because politicians made promises and the media refuse to find anything else to cover. https://www.npr.org/2020/05/08/852435761/as-hospitals-lose-revenue-thousands-of-health-care-workers-face-furloughs-layoff
What is ridiculous is people making this a political debate when it should be a clear and simple humanitarian one.
As much as hospitals like to claim that they are nonprofit organizations, they are businesses and they optimize to achieve revenue streams. That includes making statements and engaging in practices that don't keep the the country's finances or even their patients' well-being close to heart.
It looks like the US healthcare industry has a flawed business model where once you remove the revenue stream of overcharging patients for elective procedures, your revenue stream pretty much dries up. Sounds like a better business model should be implemented next time, perhaps like those of other countries where hospitals don't go out of business despite the impacts of a global pandemic.
Orange Man Bad
That’s what happens when you run hospitals and healthcare as a business instead of a human right 🤷
Don’t get me started on the media. It’s all fear based with nothing else to report.
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/08/852435761/as-hospitals-lose-revenue-thousands-of-health-care-workers-face-furloughs-layoff
Insane!
Not delving into the politics of this but I will say my wife is a nurse practitioner and was laid off. Thankfully we have savings and I have my job but it’s put tremendous financial pressure on us.
Their loss of revenue has very little to do with planning… You have all kinds of people who are postponing elective surgeries like yeah I have a torn labrum but I am not going anywhere near a hospital until this thing blows over. There are all kinds of highly complicated issues with operating room ventilation and trying to get revenue generating patients back in the outpatient clinics too.
But ultimately it is those elective surgeries to keep many of these systems afloat. And trust me they have plenty of consultants helping them but consultant can’t make someone get over there fear and come back to do a surgery that they don’t need to do immediately
The solution is more sick peoples. Don’t worry. Based on how people are acting, the Covid wards will be full soon enough.
The odds of getting covid outside are negligible, so beaches and parks pose little threat. Covid can’t survive in a pool. Infections themselves are going to go up because of more testing...so long as hospitalizations are stable and nursing homes and elderly are protected, there won’t be issues.