Health Care Reform...Medicare continues to slash reimbursement=less money to buy equipment + less money to keep staffing levels up to quality/safe numbers=decreased access to care for ANYONE!
Regulations and accreditations for Level 1 Trauma Centers require incredible amounts of man power just to maintain the documentation of having fullfilled the requirements. No documentation can close the facility down. What staff goes first? Front line first responders? Just one example...
Here's another-The same people who think nothing of making a $500.00 auto payment, take a cruise once a year, belong to bowling league, smoke a pack of cigarettes/day and are slightly obese...are often the same people who complain about the cost of health insurance and health care. Do they think that all of our incredible technology and research and skilled medical personnel are worth less than the other stuff they spend their money on? If you don't have your health, you don't have much of anything.