Why would they do that - admins siphon up the insruance claims that are like heroin to the private equity firms buying up hospitals. You will not solve the problem of hospitals spending more on admin than health workers or patient care until you remove private insurance dominance. You won't stop private insurance dominance until we enact single payer healthcare where patients all team up with the government backing us up in our dealings with insurance companies.
The issue that no one really seems to get is that the rich always want a bigger and bigger cut of their businesses. Increased costs for the business means increased costs for the consumers unfortunately. Non profits are allowed to set CEO salaries at whatever they want, look at that "non profit" hospital in Pennsylvania paying their CEO over 400 million dollars per year. At the end of the day, the top 200 people make more than 50% of the income in this country today. We are in what's called late stage capitalism. From here, we will crash and burn into civil war. The question is will it be between poor republicans and poor democrats, or will they wake up and realize it's the rich robbing us all blind.
@@heyaisdabomb They said the same thing in the 60s. The internet changed everything. Even if all CEOs took 60% less money the company still isn't going to keep wages and benefits up with modern times. They was to hire the min amount of people and pay a few people decent wages and most people struggle wages with long hours.
@@heyaisdabomb I don't think a hospital CEO made $400 million. The top 200 people don't make 50% of the income in the USA. Please don't spread false information. The highest paid hospital CEO in Pennsylvania made $3.4 million, $396 million LESS than your post. The top 200 people made $19 billion. Compare that to the total income in the USA of $25 TRILLION. 1,000 times LESS than you posted. If you make decisions based upon your internal database, you are arriving at really poor conclusions.
Well, yeah...I mean it would be great if you could have your own nurse. But let's keep in mind that a seasoned nurse makes an average of $150K per year. So if every patient had their own nurse, average premium would probably be $1400 per month. But I guess who needs to pay a mortgage, when your health is more important. Be healthy! Be homeless!
it's not enough service for customers, and not enough job creations. what this means is: to build more hospitals. but. too much barriers it takes to build hospitals. so good luck with that. requires government intervention as the market is anticompetitive and normal folk can't afford to help remedy the issue.
The vaccine mandates allowed many organizations, including Kaiser, to immorally fire many otherwise competent and decent healthcare professionals 😐 This resulted to increased nursing shortages and poor staffing ratios.
Kaiser is a Non-Profit Organization. There are no stockholders, and many non profits have massive salaries for their Executives. Perfect example is how Prince Harry left the Royal Family to become 'financially independent' running a charity.
@@melissabodily3675 Kaiser is an insurance company that runs their own healthcare providers. If you have Kaiser insurance, you go to Kaiser owned healthcare facilities and the doctors are employed by Kaiser. So, yes, they are the same thing in this case.
@@melissabodily3675 The problem in hospitals is they are paying insurance claims administrators alot more, and hiring more of those instead of hiring more nurses & doctors for coverage and good patient outcomes. The claims administrators serve one singular function: Bringing in money via billing. In a profit driven system, those who bring in money have become the primary focus from the ownership at the top. This is why "We the people" should all team up against the insurance companies so that they don't charge the snakey prices they charge, and so that healthcare costs are directly paid to hospitals without a bunch of theiving middle-men. Get rid of the middlemen and the hospitals no longer have incentive to employ an army of administrators.
@@melissabodily3675 - Kaiser is not an insurance company. It's a non-profit healthcare provider. There are no outside insurance companies involved. When it works, it works well... when not working well... it's a disaster.
The US should have universal healthcare, just as every other developed civilized country has. Insurance companies must be strictly regulated and be prevented from their obscene price gouging and greed.
Legislation or pressure from the people (if in large enough groups) can be made to force medical equipment and drugs companies, hospitals and insurance companies to have more reasonable rates. Single payer or "universal" health care is not necessary to have that. In fact, if we don't ride politicians and bureaucrats hard enough and closely inspect everything they do health care costs will actually skyrocket if and when we switch to single payer. Even if in theory it should get more affordable, it won't, due to price fixing in those industries in the US. And, what's sickening is it isn't just in health care, it happens in schooling, housing, and now they've been doing it with fuel and food costs. Eventually utilities will do it more than they have in the past. We need to either as a people or through our representatives stop this insanity. We need to find way to stop the vicious cycle of prices going up which causes wages and other prices to go up which then starts the cycle over again and wages *always* lag behind price increases, often by years or even decades.
We did before DRGs we’re instituted in the early ‘80s. Before that if you needed more nurse you hired them. DRGs impacted health care by arbitrarily lowering staffing of nurses for profit. It has severely worsened since then as there is great disparity between salaries of the administrators and the medical staff. Nurses are the spine of healthcare in hospitals and the spine is terminally broken.
I just switched my insurance away from Kaiser. Their care was subpar. I'm sure they're not all bad but I'd say about 40% (almost 1 in 2) I encountered were incompetent.
The Clinicians going on strike are the same ones who retaliated against me after I filed a complaint against a Doctor. They refused to let me work with anyone, and even screened my calls. Even the receptionist admitted to discrimination when I asked why he constantly hung up on me. But these very same people who abandoned me and violated Kaiser policy are going on strike with these demands?! Such hypocrisy. Kaiser even threatened me with legal action if I went public with this. But I'm not afraid. To coerce me into silence is sickening.
Precisely. Or do you genuinely not understand that many of these workers can no longer even afford to rent an apartment? Why are you so clueless? Why do you not know this? Shameful.
@@GrandChessboardI'm 46 and last time I was in hospital was 30 years ago when they got few bullets out me so what is your point. Some of us are Kia and they need mechanic all the time but then some of us are Ferrari and we just need oil change . My father 1945 still works full time my grandfather died when he fell from horse age 90 both of them never seen hospital in life not even born in them.
Instead of finding the Golden State Warriors ( & by the way Sacramento kings).. fund your staff that provide direct patient care : “ Kaiser’s partnership deal for Warriors arena plaza could hit $295 million” and this was a few years ago.. wonder how much now?!
They didn't strike when they were forced to get the experimental jabs. They submitted. But now they are striking for more money. These strikers have their priorities all messed up.
@@mro4440what responsibilities? 90% of them do work of housekeeping and nothing else. And it takes lot if experience to change sheets serve jelo and give juice with pills
@@koevirel8350 A nurse's job is housekeeping and nothing else. Really? You think that all nurses do is change sheets, serve jello, give orange juice and pills? It seems like you have never worked as a bedside nurse before. You should as a bedside nurse first, then talk.
@@seensay2132 Sure, Kaiser executives come down to your ward and crap on you? Don't you find the patients and family to be more demanding? Stop being a union stooge and think for yourself. You make damn good money. I'm not saying you aren't worth it, or more, but executives are not crapping on you. You need to change your attitude and focus on the positive instead of being a grumpy victim.
@@seensay2132 Nah thats the truth ask the Teachers, Writers etc.....they feel the same because thats how a few feel and then convince the epsilons to follow
@@RH-cv1rg Kaiser executives are all over this comment section trying to manipulate and control the narrative. They’re greedy and couldn’t careless for their workforce. Hopefully these nurses get EVERYTHING they really asking for. Your vitriol is proof management is running scared 😂😂😂
I worked a contract at Kaiser and they are horrible. The only reason people put up with them is because of their benefits. Mainly they only care about one benefit l. That’s the fact that you can start at a high paying position in a major city then transfer to a more affordable and smaller city while keeping your pay rate. That hospital system is actually worse than HCA and that’s not an accomplishment to be proud of.
Nurses and doctors are not on strike at Kaiser. Nurses already got 20% increase last year as a result of their strike. They are the highest paid health workers next to Stanford nurses in the country. They are paid more than primary care doctors.
You are so wrong and spreading lies .. we only got 2-3% raise each year for the next 3 years. But we were able to keep our pension plan which Kaiser was trying to take away! That was the most important thing to me than a raise. The ones who are striking now are the MA. LVN , CNA! When I worked In the ED as RN I had to take care of 4 -5 sick patients and had to clean the rooms and transport my patient to xray. Mri. To be admitted to the floor with no help. We always have a skeleton crew with no staff and it’s exhausting and dangerous for the patients! That’s mainly what we are fighting for. More staff so the patients get better care!
@@nightskylights4501 The original poster said the nurses got a 20% increase as a result of their strike. You claim the number is 22.5%. I don't see where there is misinformation. The contract provides for 22.5% increase. I think everyone understands contracts extend over multi years. Did you buy a house for $300,000 over 30 years or did your house cost $1,500 a month?
@@gracemercylove684 - Right now on Kaiser's website, many RN positions paying $95-$113 per hour. You know I'm telling the truth. But anyone can look for themselves.
Dec 5, 2022 3:15pm Nurses and nurse practitioners across two Northern California Kaiser Permanente facilities "voted overwhelmingly" to ratify a new four-year contract following last month's tentative agreement between their union and the nonprofit system. Under the contract, more than 21,000 represented workers secured a 22.5% raise over four years as well as the addition of more than 2,000 new registered nurse and nurse practitioner positions to address understaffing, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United announced Monday. “With this new contract, we will be able to recruit new nurses, retain experienced RNs, and most importantly, provide our patients with improved care,” Cathy Kennedy, president of the California Nurses Association, said in the announcement. Last month's tentative agreement narrowly averted a two-day strike planned for Nov. 21-22, which would have been the largest private-sector nurses' strike in U.S. history. Other components of the deal highlighted in the union's release included upgrades to Kaiser's personal protective equipment stockpile, workplace violence prevention commitments, tuition reimbursement for education and equity and inclusion provisions.
@@ObakuZenCenter - Nothing is actually "free". The question is how well does it work? I had Kaiser 40 years but it was not available after I moved out of California. Now I discover that I had kidney disease that was never brought up when I was at KP.
@@ObakuZenCenter "free"? People with stronger socialized medicine like Universal Healthcare end up paying higher taxes for poorer and more limited healthcare services. 😐
I've been a nurse for 23 years it's all bs since I started working it's been the same bs short staff, low pay and a lot of patients. It's not gonna change I hope the entire healthcare strikes can't wait to retire.
But only RNs ( not on strike) make 125,000 a year to 185,000 a year. Other types of nurses make less, because of different schooling. RN long and lots of schooling like drs.
All coz of Unions they are destroying a great company and best place to work. Nurses are already getting 100k plus minimum in-terms of salary and benefits
For Friday any reporter that reads this please ask strikers do sick calls effect understaff? Im curious as the response. Ask more juicer questions. How much do they make? How much do they pay in taxes? Do they know what the difference in dollars from 4% to 6.5%. All the reporters are asking the same questions but nothing in depth I feel like
It is actually insane how much some medical professionals get paid. But, the real place where money is wasted is admin workers and infrastructure, legal/insurance stuff, execs, and finally profits (even if they claim they're 'non-profits' hospitals and their workers, vendors, contractors are *all* trying to make the most they can, let's not pretend otherwise). The problem is ideally no one should care about money in the medical field, they should care about healing. But, in real life, they care about the money or the position (they're greedy, have huge student debt and their own bills too), not the healing and so you won't attract good doctors if you don't offer competitive wages and the same applies to a lesser extent to all the other positions as we're seeing with this strike. And I doubt any of those on strike care or even fully realize the negative impact this is having on patients like myself. I hope it leads to future improvements for us all but at this moment it does not seem like it is worth the hassle to anyone including even those on strike as well.
Jeez. All this whining about how they don’t get paid enough. The UAW already cost the US economy 4 billion dollars. Now it’s $50 an hour nurses that are starving. Waffle House workers want $25 an hour. Gimme a break. Thanks.
It seems like the employer has retaliated since the previous strike and ending up paying the staff more with not hiring new staff and overworking the current staff because of increased pay. Mmm.
Dec 5, 2022 3:15pm Nurses and nurse practitioners across two Northern California Kaiser Permanente facilities "voted overwhelmingly" to ratify a new four-year contract following last month's tentative agreement between their union and the nonprofit system. Under the contract, more than 21,000 represented workers secured a 22.5% raise over four years as well as the addition of more than 2,000 new registered nurse and nurse practitioner positions to address understaffing, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United announced Monday. “With this new contract, we will be able to recruit new nurses, retain experienced RNs, and most importantly, provide our patients with improved care,” Cathy Kennedy, president of the California Nurses Association, said in the announcement. Last month's tentative agreement narrowly averted a two-day strike planned for Nov. 21-22, which would have been the largest private-sector nurses' strike in U.S. history. Other components of the deal highlighted in the union's release included upgrades to Kaiser's personal protective equipment stockpile, workplace violence prevention commitments, tuition reimbursement for education and equity and inclusion provisions.
We could change everything if we just lowered prices of goods to what they were in 2000 ad. We dont need to pay people more companies should just charge less for literally everything. I literally throw penny's away because a dollar is a penny today.
they make more than fighter fighters police offiers plumbers and HVAC tech please save ur tears for another day ... why would i as a boss change anything if u tell me how long u are gonna strike.3 days... If the other ppl pay more why not go there?
Kaiser is a "not for profit" health care system. The nursing staff, techs, etc. have better benefits than the physicians. In Colorado, at least, they are the employer of choice with these striking groups; none of them ever leave unless it's for retirement.
LPN/MA or Endoscopy Technicians should receive higher pay due to the higher denominator in patient care. Health care isn’t what it was, it’s more sick people, more people suffering mental health crisis issues not to mention the aging population. They need more money with the increased and important health liabilities! Let them take care of patients without having to worry about paying the bills!
It's happened many times in US history. Unfortunately many Americans have no idea as the corporate media rarely gives workers movements much coverage at all. If they do, it's usually negative as the US is an oligarchy and relies on poorly paid workers to maintain that system.
This girl has no clue what the demand of this field is. "Oh, well, it's busy" Geez, I'm sorry my unexpected illness caught you at a bad time. I'll come back when it's more convenient for you.
Do you genuinely think it's alright that essential workers can't even afford to rent a basic apartment these days, and that most workers in the US are now functionally poor? Shame on you.
If the nurses and doctors have there own union, why are you presenting them as the ones asking for $50/hr? Have the ones changing paper towels and mopping up there. 🤦♂️
PATIENTS ARE GETTING. ATTENTION TO THEIRS NEEDS... IF YOU HAVEN'T T BEEN A PATIENT... WORKING FOR TWO.. PATIENTS WAITING FOR PAIN MEDICATION AND BATHROOM VISITS. CEOS ONLY CARE FOR HOW MANY PATIENTS THEY CAN GET.. PURE GREED OVER PATIENTS CARE .
The problem in hospitals is they are paying insurance claims administrators alot more, and hiring more of those instead of hiring more nurses & doctors for coverage and good patient outcomes. The claims administrators serve one singular function: Bringing in money via billing. In a profit driven system, those who bring in money have become the primary focus from the ownership at the top. This is why "We the people" should all team up against the insurance companies so that they don't charge the snakey prices they charge, and so that healthcare costs are directly paid to hospitals without a bunch of thieving middle-men. Get rid of the middlemen and the hospitals no longer have incentive to employ an army of administrators.
it's not enough service for customers, and not enough job creations. what this means is: to build more hospitals. but. too much barriers it takes to build hospitals. so good luck with that. requires government intervention as the market is anticompetitive and normal folk can't afford to help remedy the issue. there is definitely problems in health care and aswell the rest of the anticompetitive sectors. ups duopoly, ports, rails, hospitals. etc. it's not a wage issue, however the people at the top of it all want you to think it has to do about wages, while they continue to sit on their hands and choke society with malice/negligence or breach of trust they have with society
Kaiser Have a good Relationship With The All Enployes.but the workers, especially The Nurses they don't have a good relationship with their patients. They are very Rud to the patients. they don't do there. Job Coractly we're the patients are suffering by their Redecluse attitude. As well at the front desk, people also very Rud to patients.
Your church pastor gets a living wage instead of working for the goodness of the heart. This nurse has bills like you and I have. She needs more money as inflation rises.
I support ALL medical staff especially nurses. YOU go to school and get an education as they did, ONLY THEN do you get to criticize the work they do, the hours they must work and the rude unappreciative people they are forced to care for.
@@suzanne9150let me get this str8. U go to school for education (like most careers), u work long hours (like most crap jobs), and you deal with unappreciative people (like every job known to man). Sounds like a normal job….
It's not going to make a difference short staff.. patients won't really be missing much they be called a sooner but even full staff this means and I can also slow the process to.. the missing in a timing that they're missing is not going to make a difference. -- old ones can bet on them protesting is a boost in a pay for somebodys has do it and just so happen brave people are .. also have it where even if you bring a new and don't give the others what they want depending on if you cross the right ones then have it where they'll eventually start complainging of the same conditions... After covid prices went up wage can but land lords or etc greed so theyll go up on theirs to Dont make pay for union if need even getting or using way should have. But fair is fair bump pay up because those doing job of three to four union or not thats where can tell focus is been not good faith.. raise pay .. the only disagreement will be those that feel like they work there for so long and had to work that many years to get to that.. covid and all that other stuff is like a natural disaster and that's fair the boost price right about now everybody need that and cost of other things go down until theres real balance .. wouldnt stop without contract being meting to terms (IF) (IF NOT) then what out to accomplish is met with. Take as blessing in disguise if not if do dont ask raise down the road ready for whatever natural disaster come there no days miss on clock with smile start to finish. Would just finish out the rest of year or go else where but really finish out rest of the year like a a Champ. Sometimes think having county insurance regardless of job that better than what hearing in all of it seem still get better treatment .. all of the above
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It’s not just travel nurses hired from outsource staffing agencies to work for Kaiser. It’s also Endoscopy technicians and other specialty departments. The LPN who spoke, most likely works in urgent care and not aware of other traveling positions in which have been filled to replace a Kaiser employee. Thanks for supporting Kasier workers; SEIU Local 49 Union!
So ... paying these people more will accomplish what? The delay in scheduling will still be there. The difficulty in receiving care will still be there. The hospital staff will still be overworked. In fact, the hospital will be even more overworked and understaffed because the corporation will have less money available for new hires. To cover the cost of the pay increase, the consumers -- specifically those who are burdened with having to actually pay for their insurance (whereas the degenerates and illegals get access to Kaiser through MediCal for free) -- will pay higher premiums. The real problem is that Kaiser signs up for every medical insurance, including Medicaid and MediCal, which reimburses practically zero, resulting in the need to overbook the schedule and to push for treatments in order to make a profit. This forces workers to see an overabundance of freeloading patients that shouldn't even be seen at the same hospital as those who pay hundreds of dollars in monthly premiums. Going on strike to bargain for more money won't solve the real issue. The workers will still be overworked so long as Kaiser's business model stays the same. Here's an idea: Petition Kaiser to drop patients who don't pay for medical coverage. Let those lunatics who believe that "no human being es illegal!" and "free health care for everyone is a right!" go elsewhere. That'll remove unnecessary and unprofitable people from the hospital, lessening the workload of the staff and resulting in more attentive care. The strike accomplishes nothing. Paying the workers more accomplishes absolutely nothing.
Please see SEIU local 49 page to educate yourself as to why Kaiser staff are striking. It’s not just about pay but safe working environments with the needed staff to function appropriately. I will disregard your statements about illegals, because that’s just racist and unnecessary to bring up regarding the matter. Respectfully, ME
@@GrandChessboard Huh? What the hell are you talking about? Gas, groceries, insurance, electricity are all up more than 40 percent since Biden took office. What the hell are you talking about with how the reported inflation is determined? Is this fake Chinese AI?
Be happy with what you got selfish nurse. You sound like my niece and sister n law in Iowa and Nebraska. You do not really care and it's about u. What about hospitals security they are a big part
These comments are part of why nurses are so burnt out-the general public does not see all that nurses do for patients. Also, hospitals are forcing more patients per nurse, so how many patients you’re taking care of increases. This is linked to more *negative* outcomes, like infections, due to the nurses having less time with each patient. Patients, their families and nurses deserve so much better.
I'm guessing she does all the grunt work as an LPN. Essentially a med tech, and orderly. They're never gonna get $25/hr. She should go to a nursing home, she'll get it there.
After seeing so many nurses making TikTok videos of themselves dancing in hospitals instead of caring for patients during the height of COVID 19, I have no sympathy for them. It’s time to fire some greedy nurses who don’t take their job seriously.
LOL, you saw like 3 people do something you don't like and want to take it out on 10s of 1000s of healthcare workers? You want to think things through a little harder? How about you never go to a doctor's office or hospital. Give them the "free market" treatment like bud lite got....
the healthcare industry doesn't follow a norm of natural business cycle. Compare it to restaurant, too many tables and too little servers/cooks = bad service = people leave for another place. Healthcare is where people pay with insurance + copay, therefore they're mostly stuck on with the network they have, often time the choice is pretty limited. It's not like there is a hospital and/or urgent care center every other block. it's harder to break into the businesses too as they need to contract with an insurance to get a good size customers to start with. A potential solution is probably universal healthcare where new providers all enter into the same contract as existing providers therefore people would be willing to get into the business, but often time, that's gonna be a low margin due to nature of govt contract (exception is the dept of defense "cough offense cough") Another solution is pay for service like everything else where insurance has to be illegalized, people pay for what they need before service, people can be denied of service, and market makes it so that providers would be willing to pay more to get talents to run a business that can charge whatever they want as long as their customer base is okay with.
We already have a form of socialized medicine. Universal Healthcare will only give the government increased power over an individual's medical decision-making. No, thank you. 😐
it's not enough service for customers, and not enough job creations. what this means is: to build more hospitals. but. too much barriers it takes to build hospitals. so good luck with that. requires government intervention as the market is anticompetitive and normal folk can't afford to help remedy the issue.
Honestly, the nursing industry is about to collapse. My wife works for one of the top paid Florida hospitals and they have received less than 2 bucks in 2+ years. The cost of living has skyrocketed everywhere. The hospital is still buying property here and commencing building new facilities though. Eventually we'll be priced out here if it continues.
There's a lot of people in many other professions who have gotten no raises at all in two years, and one of main reasons the cost of living is skyrocketing is because employees across the board demand raises. What about the employees in lower paid hospitals? Should they all go on strike also? Where will it end? @@krazykozey2259
Cut admins pay and get rid of all the unneeded people there. That’s a lot of money that could go to the staff that actually take care of patients.
It's the CEO's that are the greedy ones and their pay should be cut.
Why would they do that - admins siphon up the insruance claims that are like heroin to the private equity firms buying up hospitals.
You will not solve the problem of hospitals spending more on admin than health workers or patient care until you remove private insurance dominance.
You won't stop private insurance dominance until we enact single payer healthcare where patients all team up with the government backing us up in our dealings with insurance companies.
Have you run a medical facility or hospital?You need administrators. Now, CEOs might be overated.
They will be replaced soon with AI.
@@ObakuZenCenter - Please remember that Kaiser is a Non-Profit Organization. Just like Planned Parenthood.
I don’t want a nurse that has too many patients. I want a nurse who can focus on a few patients.
The issue that no one really seems to get is that the rich always want a bigger and bigger cut of their businesses. Increased costs for the business means increased costs for the consumers unfortunately. Non profits are allowed to set CEO salaries at whatever they want, look at that "non profit" hospital in Pennsylvania paying their CEO over 400 million dollars per year. At the end of the day, the top 200 people make more than 50% of the income in this country today. We are in what's called late stage capitalism. From here, we will crash and burn into civil war. The question is will it be between poor republicans and poor democrats, or will they wake up and realize it's the rich robbing us all blind.
@@heyaisdabomb They said the same thing in the 60s. The internet changed everything. Even if all CEOs took 60% less money the company still isn't
going to keep wages and benefits up with modern times. They was to hire the min amount of people and pay a few people decent wages and most people
struggle wages with long hours.
@@heyaisdabomb I don't think a hospital CEO made $400 million. The top 200 people don't make 50% of the income in the USA. Please don't spread false information. The highest paid hospital CEO in Pennsylvania made $3.4 million, $396 million LESS than your post. The top 200 people made $19 billion. Compare that to the total income in the USA of $25 TRILLION. 1,000 times LESS than you posted.
If you make decisions based upon your internal database, you are arriving at really poor conclusions.
Well, yeah...I mean it would be great if you could have your own nurse. But let's keep in mind that a seasoned nurse makes an average of $150K per year. So if every patient had their own nurse, average premium would probably be $1400 per month. But I guess who needs to pay a mortgage, when your health is more important. Be healthy! Be homeless!
it's not enough service for customers, and not enough job creations. what this means is: to build more hospitals.
but. too much barriers it takes to build hospitals. so good luck with that. requires government intervention as the market is anticompetitive and normal folk can't afford to help remedy the issue.
Nurses work hard, they deserve better pay
How much are they making right now?
Its hard making blood pressure and wearing people
Nursing organizations across America are experiencing staffing shortages! Nurses are walking away from the profession for several interesting reasons.
The vaccine mandates allowed many organizations, including Kaiser, to immorally fire many otherwise competent and decent healthcare professionals 😐 This resulted to increased nursing shortages and poor staffing ratios.
Healthcare should never have a profit margin, nor should it have stockholders and CEOs who are mulit millionaires.
I agree. But that's really just our opinions. Not everyone agrees with us on that.
Nothing should have a profit margin. Revolution until Communism.
Kaiser is a Non-Profit Organization. There are no stockholders, and many non profits have massive salaries for their Executives. Perfect example is how Prince Harry left the Royal Family to become 'financially independent' running a charity.
When your doctor and insurance company are the same thing, no good can come of it.
Where does this happen? Do you have a specific?
Not happening. The Dr's. are being run by the insurance companies & huge health corporations.
Dr's. have lost in this also.
@@melissabodily3675 Kaiser is an insurance company that runs their own healthcare providers. If you have Kaiser insurance, you go to Kaiser owned healthcare facilities and the doctors are employed by Kaiser. So, yes, they are the same thing in this case.
@@melissabodily3675 The problem in hospitals is they are paying insurance claims administrators alot more, and hiring more of those instead of hiring more nurses & doctors for coverage and good patient outcomes. The claims administrators serve one singular function: Bringing in money via billing.
In a profit driven system, those who bring in money have become the primary focus from the ownership at the top.
This is why "We the people" should all team up against the insurance companies so that they don't charge the snakey prices they charge, and so that healthcare costs are directly paid to hospitals without a bunch of theiving middle-men. Get rid of the middlemen and the hospitals no longer have incentive to employ an army of administrators.
@@melissabodily3675 - Kaiser is not an insurance company. It's a non-profit healthcare provider. There are no outside insurance companies involved. When it works, it works well... when not working well... it's a disaster.
The US should have universal healthcare, just as every other developed civilized country has. Insurance companies must be strictly regulated and be prevented from their obscene price gouging and greed.
Agreed.
lol lets let the post office take care of patients that will show them.. lol universal HC is the bigest scam ever..
Unfortunately I cannot see that ever happening. The US has never been known as caring for its workers, not like Scandinavian countries.
The other developed countries- citizens having increase of costs Look up OECD 2023
Legislation or pressure from the people (if in large enough groups) can be made to force medical equipment and drugs companies, hospitals and insurance companies to have more reasonable rates. Single payer or "universal" health care is not necessary to have that. In fact, if we don't ride politicians and bureaucrats hard enough and closely inspect everything they do health care costs will actually skyrocket if and when we switch to single payer. Even if in theory it should get more affordable, it won't, due to price fixing in those industries in the US. And, what's sickening is it isn't just in health care, it happens in schooling, housing, and now they've been doing it with fuel and food costs. Eventually utilities will do it more than they have in the past. We need to either as a people or through our representatives stop this insanity. We need to find way to stop the vicious cycle of prices going up which causes wages and other prices to go up which then starts the cycle over again and wages *always* lag behind price increases, often by years or even decades.
During the pandemic they fired employees who refused to be vaccinated even the ones who had seniority 25+ years!
I have never heard a Nurse say they have enough staff...
We did before DRGs we’re instituted in the early ‘80s. Before that if you needed more nurse you hired them. DRGs impacted health care by arbitrarily lowering staffing of nurses for profit. It has severely worsened since then as there is great disparity between salaries of the administrators and the medical staff. Nurses are the spine of healthcare in hospitals and the spine is terminally broken.
@@mom755 what are DRGs?
I just switched my insurance away from Kaiser. Their care was subpar. I'm sure they're not all bad but I'd say about 40% (almost 1 in 2) I encountered were incompetent.
Go somewhere that pays people less and see how subpar that is, lol...
@@GrandChessboard I've had various providers over the years. That's why I changed insurances - I've received much better care elsewhere.
I hate when I have to go to Kaiser. Most of the staff are so rude. They treat you like dirt. They are nicer at the DMV.
The Clinicians going on strike are the same ones who retaliated against me after I filed a complaint against a Doctor. They refused to let me work with anyone, and even screened my calls. Even the receptionist admitted to discrimination when I asked why he constantly hung up on me. But these very same people who abandoned me and violated Kaiser policy are going on strike with these demands?! Such hypocrisy. Kaiser even threatened me with legal action if I went public with this. But I'm not afraid. To coerce me into silence is sickening.
Hospitals are the most dangerous places to be in. Hospital-acquired infections are very normal, and they often are deadly.
"We love our patients. Let's strike."
Precisely. Or do you genuinely not understand that many of these workers can no longer even afford to rent an apartment? Why are you so clueless? Why do you not know this? Shameful.
LOL, give them the bud light treatment and never go to a hospital again... Please....
@@GrandChessboardI'm 46 and last time I was in hospital was 30 years ago when they got few bullets out me so what is your point. Some of us are Kia and they need mechanic all the time but then some of us are Ferrari and we just need oil change . My father 1945 still works full time my grandfather died when he fell from horse age 90 both of them never seen hospital in life not even born in them.
@@koevirel8350 LOL, you have not used healthcare that involves nurses for 30 years? Sure, sure...
@@ObakuZenCenter You know I'm right. Have a great day and enjoy being muted.
Instead of finding the Golden State Warriors ( & by the way Sacramento kings).. fund your staff that provide direct patient care :
“ Kaiser’s partnership deal for Warriors arena plaza could hit $295 million” and this was a few years ago.. wonder how much now?!
After all of the COVID nonsense, I'm glad to see this.
They didn't strike when they were forced to get the experimental jabs. They submitted. But now they are striking for more money. These strikers have their priorities all messed up.
should be 23 minimum for care givers and nurses fast food shouldn't make more than medical workers
Fast food workers don't make more than healthcare workers. Wages have been stagnant in the US for decades. The majority of Americans are poor.
Is $50/hr not enough?
Depends on your responsibility and experience.
@@mro4440what responsibilities? 90% of them do work of housekeeping and nothing else. And it takes lot if experience to change sheets serve jelo and give juice with pills
@@koevirel8350 A nurse's job is housekeeping and nothing else. Really? You think that all nurses do is change sheets, serve jello, give orange juice and pills? It seems like you have never worked as a bedside nurse before. You should as a bedside nurse first, then talk.
Nurses are crapped on daily..too many really sick patients, too little support, no techs to help...That is why I left the hospital setting
Yea work is typically something that feels like getting crapped on because you are required to do things to get paid to do them.
@@jadesea562you must be a Kaiser executive. How about paying your employees better and stop crapping on them?
@@seensay2132 Sure, Kaiser executives come down to your ward and crap on you? Don't you find the patients and family to be more demanding?
Stop being a union stooge and think for yourself. You make damn good money. I'm not saying you aren't worth it, or more, but executives are not crapping on you.
You need to change your attitude and focus on the positive instead of being a grumpy victim.
@@seensay2132 Nah thats the truth ask the Teachers, Writers etc.....they feel the same because thats how a few feel and then convince the epsilons to follow
@@RH-cv1rg Kaiser executives are all over this comment section trying to manipulate and control the narrative. They’re greedy and couldn’t careless for their workforce. Hopefully these nurses get EVERYTHING they really asking for. Your vitriol is proof management is running scared 😂😂😂
I worked a contract at Kaiser and they are horrible. The only reason people put up with them is because of their benefits. Mainly they only care about one benefit l. That’s the fact that you can start at a high paying position in a major city then transfer to a more affordable and smaller city while keeping your pay rate. That hospital system is actually worse than HCA and that’s not an accomplishment to be proud of.
Nurses and doctors are not on strike at Kaiser. Nurses already got 20% increase last year as a result of their strike. They are the highest paid health workers next to Stanford nurses in the country. They are paid more than primary care doctors.
You are so wrong and spreading lies .. we only got 2-3% raise each year for the next 3 years. But we were able to keep our pension plan which Kaiser was trying to take away! That was the most important thing to me than a raise. The ones who are striking now are the MA. LVN , CNA! When I worked In the ED as RN I had to take care of 4 -5 sick patients and had to clean the rooms and transport my patient to xray. Mri. To be admitted to the floor with no help. We always have a skeleton crew with no staff and it’s exhausting and dangerous for the patients! That’s mainly what we are fighting for. More staff so the patients get better care!
The 22.5% raise is for over 4 years, so it's %5.635 per year. So stop misinformation.
@@nightskylights4501 The original poster said the nurses got a 20% increase as a result of their strike. You claim the number is 22.5%.
I don't see where there is misinformation. The contract provides for 22.5% increase. I think everyone understands contracts extend over multi years.
Did you buy a house for $300,000 over 30 years or did your house cost $1,500 a month?
@@gracemercylove684 - Right now on Kaiser's website, many RN positions paying $95-$113 per hour. You know I'm telling the truth. But anyone can look for themselves.
Dec 5, 2022 3:15pm
Nurses and nurse practitioners across two Northern California Kaiser Permanente facilities "voted overwhelmingly" to ratify a new four-year contract following last month's tentative agreement between their union and the nonprofit system.
Under the contract, more than 21,000 represented workers secured a 22.5% raise over four years as well as the addition of more than 2,000 new registered nurse and nurse practitioner positions to address understaffing, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United announced Monday.
“With this new contract, we will be able to recruit new nurses, retain experienced RNs, and most importantly, provide our patients with improved care,” Cathy Kennedy, president of the California Nurses Association, said in the announcement.
Last month's tentative agreement narrowly averted a two-day strike planned for Nov. 21-22, which would have been the largest private-sector nurses' strike in U.S. history.
Other components of the deal highlighted in the union's release included upgrades to Kaiser's personal protective equipment stockpile, workplace violence prevention commitments, tuition reimbursement for education and equity and inclusion provisions.
We had Primera for insurance and now our company has KP. I want to go on strike to get rid of KP. IMO, Not good at all compared to Primera.
If they think it's bad now imagine if healthcare was free nobody would be working in healthcare in America
And how many of them would lose their jobs as well.
Yet they do work in other countries with free and low cost healthcare and they are paid better. Why are you so ignorant?
@@ObakuZenCenter - Nothing is actually "free". The question is how well does it work? I had Kaiser 40 years but it was not available after I moved out of California. Now I discover that I had kidney disease that was never brought up when I was at KP.
@@ObakuZenCenter "free"? People with stronger socialized medicine like Universal Healthcare end up paying higher taxes for poorer and more limited healthcare services. 😐
Uhm uhm uhm uhm uhm uhm like uhm uhm lol this is a clown world
I've been a nurse for 23 years it's all bs since I started working it's been the same bs short staff, low pay and a lot of patients. It's not gonna change I hope the entire healthcare strikes can't wait to retire.
Low pay? Don’t be shy. Tell everyone how much your low pay is.
@@DaveAnderson-ic6oo i started $13/hr for 50 patiebts in a LTC night shift 23 yrs ago in CA.
@@Shelbymaldita - Equal to $23.65 today. But I don't think a RN was making that little.
25 an hour is crazy low for a nurse
Nurses get paid well at Kaiser don't believe the lies.
But only RNs ( not on strike) make 125,000 a year to 185,000 a year. Other types of nurses make less, because of different schooling. RN long and lots of schooling like drs.
All coz of Unions they are destroying a great company and best place to work. Nurses are already getting 100k plus minimum in-terms of salary and benefits
You are so right!
Where I go here I was told that the ones I see are Not accepting any new patients which I thought was odd I didn’t ask why
Corporate owned healthcare is all about profit.
Kaiser is a NON PROFIT Organization. They have no shareholders and pay no taxes.
For Friday any reporter that reads this please ask strikers do sick calls effect understaff? Im curious as the response. Ask more juicer questions. How much do they make? How much do they pay in taxes? Do they know what the difference in dollars from 4% to 6.5%. All the reporters are asking the same questions but nothing in depth I feel like
Have they themselves called in more than 6 times this year which effects bonus
It is actually insane how much some medical professionals get paid. But, the real place where money is wasted is admin workers and infrastructure, legal/insurance stuff, execs, and finally profits (even if they claim they're 'non-profits' hospitals and their workers, vendors, contractors are *all* trying to make the most they can, let's not pretend otherwise). The problem is ideally no one should care about money in the medical field, they should care about healing. But, in real life, they care about the money or the position (they're greedy, have huge student debt and their own bills too), not the healing and so you won't attract good doctors if you don't offer competitive wages and the same applies to a lesser extent to all the other positions as we're seeing with this strike. And I doubt any of those on strike care or even fully realize the negative impact this is having on patients like myself. I hope it leads to future improvements for us all but at this moment it does not seem like it is worth the hassle to anyone including even those on strike as well.
RN here in Cali make six figures a year, but they work 12-16 hrs a day. 3/4days a week.
Jeez. All this whining about how they don’t get paid enough. The UAW already cost the US economy 4 billion dollars.
Now it’s $50 an hour nurses that are starving.
Waffle House workers want $25 an hour.
Gimme a break.
Thanks.
It seems like the employer has retaliated since the previous strike and ending up paying the staff more with not hiring new staff and overworking the current staff because of increased pay. Mmm.
@@IRNoahBody Why are you asking an irrelevant question regarding my comment? But, I understand the point of your question.
@@IRNoahBody
The point is, GET a job...👈😁
Dec 5, 2022 3:15pm
Nurses and nurse practitioners across two Northern California Kaiser Permanente facilities "voted overwhelmingly" to ratify a new four-year contract following last month's tentative agreement between their union and the nonprofit system.
Under the contract, more than 21,000 represented workers secured a 22.5% raise over four years as well as the addition of more than 2,000 new registered nurse and nurse practitioner positions to address understaffing, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United announced Monday.
“With this new contract, we will be able to recruit new nurses, retain experienced RNs, and most importantly, provide our patients with improved care,” Cathy Kennedy, president of the California Nurses Association, said in the announcement.
Last month's tentative agreement narrowly averted a two-day strike planned for Nov. 21-22, which would have been the largest private-sector nurses' strike in U.S. history.
Other components of the deal highlighted in the union's release included upgrades to Kaiser's personal protective equipment stockpile, workplace violence prevention commitments, tuition reimbursement for education and equity and inclusion provisions.
We could change everything if we just lowered prices of goods to what they were in 2000 ad. We dont need to pay people more companies should just charge less for literally everything. I literally throw penny's away because a dollar is a penny today.
Residential behavioral health needs to be looked into it extremely violent in those places to
At least you’re not on strike for 3 months like the nurses at RWJ in New Jersey
What? Why? I’m a NP and used to live in NJ but in TX now
Good for them.
You're not paying bills on strike
Making 100k + is not enough for you lady! Get another job.
Love this comment! Kaiser staff are overpaid -- and usually super rude.
they make more than fighter fighters police offiers plumbers and HVAC tech please save ur tears for another day ... why would i as a boss change anything if u tell me how long u are gonna strike.3 days... If the other ppl pay more why not go there?
Kaiser is a "not for profit" health care system. The nursing staff, techs, etc. have better benefits than the physicians. In Colorado, at least, they are the employer of choice with these striking groups; none of them ever leave unless it's for retirement.
The physicians actually own kaiser and are “partners “
Educate yourself
Kaiser should hire more nonunion nurses
Oh look....They want money...
.... lists a bunch of issues that have nothing to do with pay..
And paying them more will fix it. 😮
I wish you and the rest of the public knew more about what nurses deal with
@@thishappycrafter272"I wish you and the rest of the public"....
🤦🏽♀️
@@thishappycrafter272nurses don't do the dirty work. That is done by the cna.
@@anitakristensen4679 Nurses rarely get a moment to even get a break or sit. They are on their feet their entire shift.
@@CosmicLogic-ts5vr and so are cnas. I worked in the medical profession.
LPN/MA or Endoscopy Technicians should receive higher pay due to the higher denominator in patient care. Health care isn’t what it was, it’s more sick people, more people suffering mental health crisis issues not to mention the aging population. They need more money with the increased and important health liabilities! Let them take care of patients without having to worry about paying the bills!
Union strikes everywhere. Did this happened before since the early days of the union movement?
It's happened many times in US history. Unfortunately many Americans have no idea as the corporate media rarely gives workers movements much coverage at all. If they do, it's usually negative as the US is an oligarchy and relies on poorly paid workers to maintain that system.
Does Kaiser want to be a County Hospital??
This girl has no clue what the demand of this field is. "Oh, well, it's busy"
Geez, I'm sorry my unexpected illness caught you at a bad time. I'll come back when it's more convenient for you.
Do you genuinely think it's alright that essential workers can't even afford to rent a basic apartment these days, and that most workers in the US are now functionally poor? Shame on you.
Heros worked here.
Remember when you see flags, banners and slogans.
Kaiser nurse explains why she's on strike. Because kaiser treats the staff as badly as the patients.
CNA’S NEED MORE PAY TOO!
Ok, so now we need to hear from the other side so We The People can make an informed decision. Thats what actual "journalists" would do.
LOL, who are they going to talk to? The CEOs and stockholders?
@@GrandChessboard - Kaiser Permanente has no stockholders. They are a Non-Profit Organization.
@@GrandChessboard The workers are obviously negotiating with somebody. We need to hear their side as well.
Someone explained Nuremberg to her.
The managers are fully responsible for whatever Happens.
I think 80% of them should be let go. There are a couple of doctors I can think of that should get pink slips too.
If the nurses and doctors have there own union, why are you presenting them as the ones asking for $50/hr? Have the ones changing paper towels and mopping up there. 🤦♂️
Evidently she doesn't need the money she's going to lose while on strike. You go on strike ,you have quit your job. Go to work at 7/11
What on earth are you talking about??
LPN not the same as RN, RNs are not on strike, they go through more schooling and make much more money
ya thats not bad for a profession that allowed over 1 million US Americans die of Covid and kept their premiums/money@@IRNoahBody
In fact they are on strike. Why are you making things up?
PATIENTS ARE GETTING. ATTENTION TO THEIRS NEEDS... IF YOU HAVEN'T T BEEN A PATIENT... WORKING FOR TWO.. PATIENTS WAITING FOR PAIN MEDICATION AND BATHROOM VISITS. CEOS ONLY CARE FOR HOW MANY PATIENTS THEY CAN GET.. PURE GREED OVER PATIENTS CARE .
The only thing worse than Kaiser is Sutter Health.
Kaiser needs a reckoning
Cause She's too HAUGHT to Werk in an Office
RAWR!!
The problem in hospitals is they are paying insurance claims administrators alot more, and hiring more of those instead of hiring more nurses & doctors for coverage and good patient outcomes. The claims administrators serve one singular function: Bringing in money via billing.
In a profit driven system, those who bring in money have become the primary focus from the ownership at the top.
This is why "We the people" should all team up against the insurance companies so that they don't charge the snakey prices they charge, and so that healthcare costs are directly paid to hospitals without a bunch of thieving middle-men. Get rid of the middlemen and the hospitals no longer have incentive to employ an army of administrators.
Good thing that Kaiser is a Non Profit Organization!
They make good money, they want more? WTF 😳
They’re entitled babies what do you expect
@@hackyou3227 Stop going to them then, go to a church and get faith healed instead....
Why are you lying??!! You think $21/hour is "good money?" 😡😡😡
it's not enough service for customers, and not enough job creations. what this means is: to build more hospitals.
but. too much barriers it takes to build hospitals. so good luck with that. requires government intervention as the market is anticompetitive and normal folk can't afford to help remedy the issue.
there is definitely problems in health care and aswell the rest of the anticompetitive sectors. ups duopoly, ports, rails, hospitals. etc. it's not a wage issue, however the people at the top of it all want you to think it has to do about wages, while they continue to sit on their hands and choke society with malice/negligence or breach of trust they have with society
They don't, by and large, make enough to even afford a basic apartment. WTF is wrong with you ghouls? Shameful.
Kaiser Have a good Relationship With The All Enployes.but the workers, especially The Nurses they don't have a good relationship with their patients. They are very Rud to the patients. they don't do there. Job Coractly we're the patients are suffering by their Redecluse attitude. As well at the front desk, people also very Rud to patients.
$50K for a 1 year degree? An LPN is not an RN. They are entry level jobs. Go to school and further your education, then we’ll talk.✌️
kaiser service is terrible, there must be an issue from the top down.
I wouldn't trust a nurse who strikes for this. She's more about money than helping people. Even if she's paid more, the same problems will be there.
Your church pastor gets a living wage instead of working for the goodness of the heart. This nurse has bills like you and I have. She needs more money as inflation rises.
And even if care may not change, at least she may afford groceries now.
I support ALL medical staff especially nurses. YOU go to school and get an education as they did, ONLY THEN do you get to criticize the work they do, the hours they must work and the rude unappreciative people they are forced to care for.
@@suzanne9150let me get this str8. U go to school for education (like most careers), u work long hours (like most crap jobs), and you deal with unappreciative people (like every job known to man). Sounds like a normal job….
It doesn't really matter you wont have healthcare after 20 years so theres that.
It's not going to make a difference short staff.. patients won't really be missing much they be called a sooner but even full staff this means and I can also slow the process to.. the missing in a timing that they're missing is not going to make a difference. -- old ones can bet on them protesting is a boost in a pay for somebodys has do it and just so happen brave people are .. also have it where even if you bring a new and don't give the others what they want depending on if you cross the right ones then have it where they'll eventually start complainging of the same conditions... After covid prices went up wage can but land lords or etc greed so theyll go up on theirs to
Dont make pay for union if need even getting or using way should have. But fair is fair bump pay up because those doing job of three to four union or not thats where can tell focus is been not good faith.. raise pay .. the only disagreement will be those that feel like they work there for so long and had to work that many years to get to that.. covid and all that other stuff is like a natural disaster and that's fair the boost price right about now everybody need that and cost of other things go down until theres real balance .. wouldnt stop without contract being meting to terms (IF) (IF NOT) then what out to accomplish is met with. Take as blessing in disguise if not if do dont ask raise down the road ready for whatever natural disaster come there no days miss on clock with smile start to finish. Would just finish out the rest of year or go else where but really finish out rest of the year like a a Champ.
Sometimes think having county insurance regardless of job that better than what hearing in all of it seem still get better treatment .. all of the above
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LOL, these are nurses not cops...
Go to boys town ne they are very well trained
So strange you dont have universal healthcare without profit for the owners - and instead get surgerys you need without getting poor
It’s called the US
Kaiser Permanente is a Non-Profit Organization, there are no stockholders.
@@el_aleman - Kaiser Permanente is a Non-Profit Organization, there are no stockholders.
It’s not just travel nurses hired from outsource staffing agencies to work for Kaiser. It’s also Endoscopy technicians and other specialty departments.
The LPN who spoke, most likely works in urgent care and not aware of other traveling positions in which have been filled to replace a Kaiser employee.
Thanks for supporting Kasier workers; SEIU Local 49 Union!
So ... paying these people more will accomplish what? The delay in scheduling will still be there. The difficulty in receiving care will still be there. The hospital staff will still be overworked. In fact, the hospital will be even more overworked and understaffed because the corporation will have less money available for new hires. To cover the cost of the pay increase, the consumers -- specifically those who are burdened with having to actually pay for their insurance (whereas the degenerates and illegals get access to Kaiser through MediCal for free) -- will pay higher premiums.
The real problem is that Kaiser signs up for every medical insurance, including Medicaid and MediCal, which reimburses practically zero, resulting in the need to overbook the schedule and to push for treatments in order to make a profit. This forces workers to see an overabundance of freeloading patients that shouldn't even be seen at the same hospital as those who pay hundreds of dollars in monthly premiums. Going on strike to bargain for more money won't solve the real issue. The workers will still be overworked so long as Kaiser's business model stays the same.
Here's an idea: Petition Kaiser to drop patients who don't pay for medical coverage. Let those lunatics who believe that "no human being es illegal!" and "free health care for everyone is a right!" go elsewhere. That'll remove unnecessary and unprofitable people from the hospital, lessening the workload of the staff and resulting in more attentive care.
The strike accomplishes nothing. Paying the workers more accomplishes absolutely nothing.
Please see SEIU local 49 page to educate yourself as to why Kaiser staff are striking. It’s not just about pay but safe working environments with the needed staff to function appropriately.
I will disregard your statements about illegals, because that’s just racist and unnecessary to bring up regarding the matter.
Respectfully,
ME
They can afford this. I can’t believe they won’t give them this. That’s nothing.
If they want better pay just work for sharp
So they’re striking to work less and get payed more?
Yes, insane.
That's Bidenomics. The intent is to destroy the US dollar and have every contract go through unions.
Yes, because Reagan and Bush changed the way CPI is calculated and inflation has been 8-10% for years. Not too many getting 10% raises a year....
@@GrandChessboard Huh? What the hell are you talking about? Gas, groceries, insurance, electricity are all up more than 40 percent since Biden took office. What the hell are you talking about with how the reported inflation is determined? Is this fake Chinese AI?
she reminds me of Judge Smails nephew Spaulding.....
A large portion of would be nurses are on OnlyFans.
What is it with the incels commenting here lol? So funny and so embarrassing.
Learn to code. May you never go back to work.
Fire everyone that is ungrateful to have a damn good paying job and hire people that actually want to work.
Shame on you. Many of these workers can't even afford to rent an apartment. What the hell is wrong with you?
LOL, where are you going to go for healthcare? McDonalds?
@@GrandChessboard Not there!
@@ObakuZenCenter Is that why my neighbor can afford a $200K house? So underpaid! Right!
@@sawas2421 No, I want to fire the one's who are paid extremely well who is out there not working. No work, no money!
Be happy with what you got selfish nurse. You sound like my niece and sister n law in Iowa and Nebraska. You do not really care and it's about u. What about hospitals security they are a big part
Don't go to the hospital next time you get hurt, lol.
These comments are part of why nurses are so burnt out-the general public does not see all that nurses do for patients. Also, hospitals are forcing more patients per nurse, so how many patients you’re taking care of increases. This is linked to more *negative* outcomes, like infections, due to the nurses having less time with each patient. Patients, their families and nurses deserve so much better.
Let’s get everyone in America to go on strike. Big Mac will be $20.00,oh wait- the McDonalds by me just closed down 😮
In my opinion I feel that KP will find a way to weed her out. They feel that nurses are a dime a dozen, in my experience.
Except that there is a shortage of nurses. Did you genuinely not know this? Support people over profit.
@@ObakuZenCenter It is just another trickledown economics bot...
@@ObakuZenCenter Read again, KP feel that nurses are a dime a dozen--I did not say that. Yes, support people over money.
I'm guessing she does all the grunt work as an LPN. Essentially a med tech, and orderly. They're never gonna get $25/hr. She should go to a nursing home, she'll get it there.
After seeing so many nurses making TikTok videos of themselves dancing in hospitals instead of caring for patients during the height of COVID 19, I have no sympathy for them. It’s time to fire some greedy nurses who don’t take their job seriously.
LOL, you saw like 3 people do something you don't like and want to take it out on 10s of 1000s of healthcare workers? You want to think things through a little harder? How about you never go to a doctor's office or hospital. Give them the "free market" treatment like bud lite got....
Didn’t hospitals fire staff for not being vaccinated?
Hospitals did the right thing by firing staff for not being vaccinated.
Hit the oil rig!!!
Just go work at McDonald’s with their new $20 pay
That's a paycut.
You’re a caregiverDuh….
They always strike
the healthcare industry doesn't follow a norm of natural business cycle. Compare it to restaurant, too many tables and too little servers/cooks = bad service = people leave for another place. Healthcare is where people pay with insurance + copay, therefore they're mostly stuck on with the network they have, often time the choice is pretty limited. It's not like there is a hospital and/or urgent care center every other block. it's harder to break into the businesses too as they need to contract with an insurance to get a good size customers to start with.
A potential solution is probably universal healthcare where new providers all enter into the same contract as existing providers therefore people would be willing to get into the business, but often time, that's gonna be a low margin due to nature of govt contract (exception is the dept of defense "cough offense cough")
Another solution is pay for service like everything else where insurance has to be illegalized, people pay for what they need before service, people can be denied of service, and market makes it so that providers would be willing to pay more to get talents to run a business that can charge whatever they want as long as their customer base is okay with.
We already have a form of socialized medicine. Universal Healthcare will only give the government increased power over an individual's medical decision-making. No, thank you. 😐
it's not enough service for customers, and not enough job creations. what this means is: to build more hospitals.
but. too much barriers it takes to build hospitals. so good luck with that. requires government intervention as the market is anticompetitive and normal folk can't afford to help remedy the issue.
Dont RNs make 80k to 100k a yr?
They are not on strike.
And no that is wrong. You have to work 60 hours a week to make close to that as a RN with 30 years exp.😊
LOL, not in the state of Texas I can tell you that much. You are thinking of California...
They are not RN's, they are LPN's.
Lol what? Never met an RN that made that much. At most they would make 60k.
By the looks of it she's 12 didn't know real work and expects it all
Honestly, the nursing industry is about to collapse. My wife works for one of the top paid Florida hospitals and they have received less than 2 bucks in 2+ years. The cost of living has skyrocketed everywhere. The hospital is still buying property here and commencing building new facilities though. Eventually we'll be priced out here if it continues.
There's a lot of people in many other professions who have gotten no raises at all in two years, and one of main reasons the cost of living is skyrocketing is because employees across the board demand raises. What about the employees in lower paid hospitals? Should they all go on strike also? Where will it end? @@krazykozey2259
Well she's not 12 so what's your point?
You don't care about the patients because of you being on strike that's less people to help them. Go back to work....
Over worked, understaffed, underpaid... Now imagine if police officers could go on strike?
For what? They can make up to 200k on a high school education.
Cops don't work as it is. They are one of the laziest professionals out there. I bet you think they are dodging bullets their entire shift.
Cops go on strikes all the time. You never heard of blue flu before? LOL, low information voter I see...
Except that police are none of the above. So the real question is, why are you lying?
You pay your car mechanic more than ANY RN makes per hour..
a hr yes a yr no
Fire everyone whos on strike. Too lazy
LOL, then the hospitals will shut down. You Republican want to think ahead once in your lives?
Economy bought to fall off a cliff people striking gonna wish they had jobs in about six months
Pay them what they are worth or when you get sick, don't expect them to help you.
@@suzanne9150or find an employer that will pay you “what your worth”….. it goes both ways.
LOL, what so no more hospitals?