TreborRN
I'm a Democrat and an Obama supporter. I'm also a nurse. I'm tired of the garbage, red tape, etc., that costs so much in delivering health care to my patients every day. Medical costs are soaring because there is so much upper management that is necessary to keep up with all of the rules that government lays on us in trying to help the problem without seeing it from our side at all, just making us the enemy. Health Care Professional are made out to be the enemy every time and we are forever having to overcome that with each admission before the patient and family will let us deliver care, time wasted. The only real, humane way to cut health care costs is the shorten stays. NOT pay for shorter stays but actually shorten the stay. Right now, government keeps shortening the days it allows for each illness but expects more to get done, in less time, safer. Get real, and the families can feel that they are getting pushed out. Also, dead people have to be allowed to die. SOMEHOW the health care system needs support from a relief package that allows us to stop pumping life, time, money, and other resources into corpses, literally festering bubbles of jelly who's 7 daughters and 3 sons can't agree on allowing to die humanely so we spend dialysis, blood, wound care, specialty consultants, etc. on, to the tune of $10,000 a day, per person for as long as 20 additional days, prolonging death. It's absolutely preposterous what I do every day because the families aren't told the truth. This is absolutely the rule, it is not the exception. I am not saying to give up on recovering anyone but there is a time when it is obviously time, every day after that raises the cost of care unnecessarily and is inhumane. Lets fix the real problem.