where my niece is an RN. I worry about her and everyone in healthcare right now.

for the largest Senior/Elderly Genocide in history..........

Don't forget Social Security.....

easily ramp up production of what they need. Like China. Build a hospital in a week, in the US it would take a month to just get it out of a focus group to determine the optics of it.

Esp. with health staff falling out with the virus, and being so overworked, extreme shortage of equipment, no space for all the patients, no critical care oxygen/respirators to treat all the pneumonia patients,
so Docs are having to make heart rending triage choices.

In cases of epidemics/massive disasters like Katrina, medical triage is almost always a factor.

As as I am about/over/at trump, there is no excuse for Pence, McConnell, and other WH-Gov. people for not doing the right thing.

Believe me, I am sticking sooo many pins into their dolls.

If you pop the Grotesque Orange Pustule, there will be a spike in all kinds of infectious diseases of mind and body.

Ants in my eyes Adam
@adamfry901
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@yashar
Again, why do we have the most expensive medical care/insurance in the world and we cant even provide basic supplies to our hospitals??

Janice Badger Nelson
@JNelsonRN
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Because hospitals have had to cut back budgets because of big insurance and their low reimbursement to hospitals.

The the Japanese manufacturing model where Supply inventorys are decrease to save money the only problem is Japanese manufacturers don't have to heal and comfort contagious people in a pandemics. Its a horrible process for healthcare.

" Its a horrible process for healthcare." - It's a business process/decision.

Like not putting the backup generators for a nuclear power plant up high where they won't get flooded out.

Cheaper to place them a lower level.

Sometimes reliability is more important than saving a few bucks.

I heard some suggestions from government folks that medicaid would be expanded. Since medicare for all seems to be the #1 issue in the Democratic primaries, perhaps, just perhaps, the folks who will experience the worst of this pandemic will realize medicare for all is a pretty damn good idea and could (or would have) save(d) their asses or those of their loved ones.

When the pendulum swings too far one way...........

As long as for profit healtcare exist. So will this problem. We need to socialize healthcare. Not just change the payer source. This was not my opinion a month ago, but times change.

but if all the doctors and nurses and auxiliary health care staff die, it’s game over.

I’m both a nurse and an old fart so I can write this.