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There is a real racket that was the creation of a combination of things. One being a lot of hospital execs who are not physicians but pure bottom liners and another being Covid.
Hospital execs made some moves to temporarily improve their bottom line which were good for them, but not necessarily patients and staff.
The other thing that happened during Covid was they let go of a lot of staff who objected to the mandatory jab. But then to back fill those positions they hire temporary travelers. A whole bunch of doctors and nurses are traveling "locums". The health care facility my wife works at hires a lot of locums.
I recently spoke with an ICU nurse who was working for $28/hr at a hospital. When he seen what locums were getting paid he quit and became one. It can go up to $7k for a 4 day stretch and $10k for a 5 day stretch at these temporary assignments. The hitch is you have to take a period of 35 days off during the year in order to keep a tax exempt status. There's that and you have to travel for work and frequently relocate. Plus, most of the places that hire you could care less about vaccine status.
So that's how health care execs are keeping costs down. Get rid of staff and replace with temps at nearly ten times the cost. Wonder why health care is so affordable. It's a racket.
Hospital execs made some moves to temporarily improve their bottom line which were good for them, but not necessarily patients and staff.
The other thing that happened during Covid was they let go of a lot of staff who objected to the mandatory jab. But then to back fill those positions they hire temporary travelers. A whole bunch of doctors and nurses are traveling "locums". The health care facility my wife works at hires a lot of locums.
I recently spoke with an ICU nurse who was working for $28/hr at a hospital. When he seen what locums were getting paid he quit and became one. It can go up to $7k for a 4 day stretch and $10k for a 5 day stretch at these temporary assignments. The hitch is you have to take a period of 35 days off during the year in order to keep a tax exempt status. There's that and you have to travel for work and frequently relocate. Plus, most of the places that hire you could care less about vaccine status.
So that's how health care execs are keeping costs down. Get rid of staff and replace with temps at nearly ten times the cost. Wonder why health care is so affordable. It's a racket.
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