Originally Posted by DRS112

Who said they did?

Originally Posted by DRS112

From what I understand it is also very difficult to complete nursing school...there is a several year wait to get into the program here....not enough teachers...which limits the supply and drives up their wages.

Originally Posted by anhailla

you have it backwards....nursing schools CLOSED in the 1990's because females quit going...you know why?
because nursing is a back braking work that burns out it's best people.
there are only waiting lists because all the schools closed...not because so many people want to be nurses
lol!!!!!

The health care crisis is not due to nurses making too much money

it has utterly nothing to do with it.

follow the money.

Originally Posted by DRS112

whoa...okay...just going by what the people I know who are in the program tell me...I'm not sure I believe the whole thing about the nursing schools closing...

Originally Posted by DRS112

whoa...okay...just going by what the people I know who are in the program tell me...I'm not sure I believe the whole thing about the nursing schools closing...

Originally Posted by anhailla

well I know for a fact that schools closed because enrollment was DOWN..DEMAND DOWN

not up.

Originally Posted by DRS112

google nursing program waiting list....

this works too..
Nursing waiting list grows long - News

A national nursing shortage is driving an increase in admissions to nursing programs across the country, Blackburn said.

A lack of a nursing faculty is also to blame, and the program will only be able to expand after hiring more faculty to provide more clinical experience, she said.

Originally Posted by anhailla

right..your talking about today..I am telling you most schools closed in the 1990's because tech jobs were more attractive to women than giving bed baths for the next 30 years..not to mention working overnight..weekends...holidays and still making less than the plumber or the electrician...

we are at the beginning of a nursing shortage unlike any ever...so it is likely that enrollment will go back up...hence schools may open back up.

but the bottom line is, it will be a massive shortage due to baby boomers retiring...and ironically, baby boomers needing more acute care in hospital settings.

no one is forecasting that those demands will be met.

so the last thing people need to be thinking is that nurses make too much money.

they will need to be paid more...not less

Originally Posted by RK77

I am going to answer with what some will describe as obtuse.

It is because the customer is not paying for the product! The market forces are NOT at play here!

Think about this --- those of you who are old enough to.

In the late 60's early 70's the cost of healthcare was an ENTIRELY different issue for the american people. The focus was the $10.00 aspirin, the outrageous physician fees, the hospital errors.....

The people were SHUT UP not by these issues being addressed but by the insurance industry stepping in (along with the government) and saying "not to worry---we will pay for it" with a promise to bring down the costs.

They lied----people died!

The corporations then had a field day!! They could charge whatever they wanted and the only person there to examine the product no longer felt invested in those charges. AND as a perk---neither did the politicians who were just as happy to focus on the industries interest in them, as politicians!


And to make things even sweeter the repukes came in and convinced the working american that they could play in the market. Ignore Keatings S&L crap---ignore Enron---You too can profit off the health misfortunes of others!


Bingo---gold mine!

Once entrenched any idiot could have predicted that there would be people who would argue as many have here--that the termination of the problem would be worse than the problem itself---it would cost jobs, it would destroy the market, blah, blah, blah!

It is a scheme made in repuke heaven!