The Trump/Republican Medicaid cuts will make patients wait longer for hospital beds and increase ER boarding, emergency room doctors say. It's already a growing problem, an analysis says.
This is still rare in larger better funded hospitals. But rural hospitals and ones that serve poorer populations are struggling. A lot of doctors and nurses that used to be frontline died or were debilitated before the vaccine came out. More have quit because our society has shown its whole ass to science with anti-vaxxers and forced-birth. We were in a doctor and nursing shortage long before all this. Then you remove research grants and limit the amount hospitals take off the top which could have helped pay for things…finally you kneecap the Medicaid poor people often use to cover their costs.
The money largely goes to insurance and admin but its not like doctors and properly certified nurses (much less actually good ones) are cheap or easily available either.
The study seems to have been pulled from the total pool of all Epic visits. That means it includes large, better funded hospitals in the proportion they are of the ER visits. I don’ think it’s safe to say it’s rare in larger hospitals. It might be more common in rural ones, but it appears to be worse than it was 5 years ago across the board.
This is still rare in larger better funded hospitals. But rural hospitals and ones that serve poorer populations are struggling. A lot of doctors and nurses that used to be frontline died or were debilitated before the vaccine came out. More have quit because our society has shown its whole ass to science with anti-vaxxers and forced-birth. We were in a doctor and nursing shortage long before all this. Then you remove research grants and limit the amount hospitals take off the top which could have helped pay for things…finally you kneecap the Medicaid poor people often use to cover their costs.
The money largely goes to insurance and admin but its not like doctors and properly certified nurses (much less actually good ones) are cheap or easily available either.
The study seems to have been pulled from the total pool of all Epic visits. That means it includes large, better funded hospitals in the proportion they are of the ER visits. I don’ think it’s safe to say it’s rare in larger hospitals. It might be more common in rural ones, but it appears to be worse than it was 5 years ago across the board.