American hospitals send nurses home

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Another win for fully privatised healthcare. As the US grapples with a major pandemic that has already overwhelmed hospitals across the country, its private healthcare system is sending nurses home because treating people with COVID-19 is not a profitable enough use of their time:

At a time when medical professionals are putting their lives at risk, tens of thousands of doctors in the United States are taking large pay cuts.

And even as some parts of the US are talking of desperate shortages in nursing staff, elsewhere in the country many nurses are being told to stay at home without pay.

That is because American healthcare companies are looking to cut costs as they struggle to generate revenue during the coronavirus crisis.

"It's criminal that that these people are having their hours and their pay slashed at a time when they are risking their lives, when it's the most dangerous time of our careers to be coming in to work every day and when really they should be receiving something like hazard pay," says Dr Jane Jenab, a physician in emergency medicine in Denver, Colorado.

"One of the biggest issues in US medicine today is that it has become a business. In the past, that was not the case," says Dr Jenab.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52476128

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This proves the effectiveness of privatization.

State governments have interfered and ordered hospitals to cancel elective procedures.

But, with most of the country's coronavirus patients (unsurprisingly) in filthy and disease-infested New York, the U.S. has vastly more medical capacity than there are C19 patients to occupy beds. The Navy even had to withdraw its hospital ships due to underuse. So you have huge surpluses of hospital space in places like Atlanta and Dallas. And since they've been banned from doing things like breast augmentation or rhinoplasty they have to send staff home. Nurses that are still working are doing things like uploading TikTok videos they have so little to do.

Had the government not interfered and simply let market forces operate, there would be no medical layoffs.

This also proves the best solution to coronavirus would be for the CDC to detonate a neutron bomb on the island of Manhattan. For 400 years the people of New York have been living among trash like filthy rodents because it's how they choose to live. Now their rank filthiness is impacting the civilized part of the country. Send in an exterminator.