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2013-04-18 Home Front: Politix

Dem proposes federal regulation of nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals

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Posted by Fred 2013-04-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Just discharge the excess patients. That will take care of the patient/nurse ratio!

Posted by tipover 2013-04-18 00:31|| 2013-04-18 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 On-line, virtual admissions ?

Posted by Besoeker 2013-04-18 01:37|| 2013-04-18 01:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Odd, insurance reimbursements are already tied in part to mandated and audited patient ratio data. Maybe Babs had an unpleasant experience?

Oh, wait! No, they don't use 'our' healthcare.

Posted by Skidmark 2013-04-18 05:06|| 2013-04-18 05:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Easy fix. Invite all obamacare unemployed down to the hospital for breakfast and $10.00. Take their temperature and bill the GIvernment $150.00.

In the end obamacare will make us all patients.

Posted by Airandee 2013-04-18 07:35|| 2013-04-18 07:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Yet another call for Death Panels.

Just think - in Boston some Hospitals would have to refuse victims due to Boxer's staffing requirement.

"Sorry - your going to have to wait out here, bleed out, and die - We are short on nurses right now...".

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-04-18 07:48|| 2013-04-18 07:48|| Front Page Top

#6 And this will lower costs and improve patient care how?

Oh wait... it isn't about that.

Fuck off Barb.

Posted by DarthVader 2013-04-18 09:40|| 2013-04-18 09:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Any you guys laughed at MY health care reform bill back in '92.

Geez, MY reform bill was much better than this mess. At least everyone understood what was in it and it WAS health care reform and not yet another bone thrown at the insurance industry and the greed and gluttony of the AMA.

When you look at health care policy, you realize we really do not have any overarching philosophy of health care, we just respond to bleeding heart stories, and knee jerk responses to health care problems.

Doesn't this moron realize there is a vast shortage of nurses world wide? Where in hell does she think we are going to get the nurses? AND what about the nursing schools in the US closing because they can't find faculty?

Okay Barbs, so do you staff for your maximum patient capacity and have nurses sitting around doing very little or do you staff for your average hospitalization rate and go to a temp agency when you have a spike in admissions?

Do you even understand what you are proposing?

Lord have mercy, we need a health care policy not a pile of health care legislation.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-04-18 12:17|| 2013-04-18 12:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Democrats petition businesses to have minimum employment levels, beginning with hospitals.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-04-18 15:52|| 2013-04-18 15:52|| Front Page Top

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