[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by PugMom

i'd say you're lucky, i've had my worst experiences @ teaching hospitals, & would never consider using 1 again

We had a much better experience, UVA hospital in Charlottesville Va saved my life

[Worldseries27]

Originally Posted by pugmom

i'd say you're lucky, i've had my worst experiences @ teaching hospitals, & would never consider using 1 again

some never get over student dr leaving an instrument inside

[Chloe Girl]

Originally Posted by eeroger

My husband is with The Villages Health and he was recently assigned his 3rd primary care doc. The other two left or retired. The Sun has been running for several weeks large 1/2 or full page adds for docs.

After being here for a little over 6 years, I'm on my second PC doc which isn't too bad. My first doc left because of the long hours. I read an article in the Sun News a couple of months ago and there was a photo of my first doc. She was volunteering her time. I guess she got more fulfillment out of donating her time whenever she wanted rather than be on a strict regiment and getting paid for it. Yes, this country needs more doctors.

[oneclickplus]

Originally Posted by NoMo50

No need to throw shade at the developer, as this problem is occurring all over the country. Our daughter is a nurse practitioner, working at a large teaching hospital "up north." They have had staffing issues for years, and it's only getting worse. Covid sure didn't help. Plus, many young people today are rethinking the prospect of getting into the health provider profession. The prospect of going to school for 10 years, amassing huge amounts of debt, and entering a field where you are not in control over what your "product" is worth has cast a lot of doubt on their prospects for the future.

I recently had an outpatient procedure done on a knee at a local Orthopedics office. The bill for that procedure exceeded $4,000. With Medicare and secondary insurance payments all in, the doctor's net was less than 600 bucks. Again, this is something going on all over the country...not just here in the bubble.

My daughter worked in cardiac care in a Maryland teaching hospital until the Covid vaccine mandates. She was told to take the shot or take a walk. She ended up being forced out and then finishing her business degree. By the time they called her begging her to take her job back (with a sign-on bonus), she had graduated with honors and was working for one of the big accounting / consulting firms. She is done with the health care field and not going back. Mandates have consequences.

P.S. My entire family remains mRNA vaccine free and we've not lost a single person to Covid.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

Good post. The Canadians have National Health Care because they DESERVE it as opposed to US citizens that suffer through this crapola that the US calls a healthcare system that benefits only the upper executives in the Insurance RIPOFF Industry. WE get what we DESERVE because we don't complain about or even UNDERSTAND the US system. WE are like mushrooms being fed cow DUNG.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

Possible solution - how about taking the excessive salaries of the Insurance Companies CEOs and overpaid staff and splitting that up among the young Doctors and nurses to encourage them to work in Fl hospitals and other states where needed? US society deserves better than the current situation.

Because it would amount to a few dollars (at most) per paycheck...

Math is hard...

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

Because it would amount to a few dollars (at most) per paycheck...

Math is hard...

Was about to say the same thing. Just like socialism is a great system until you run out of other peoples money.

[Reeds]

Seems like a lot of these issues started sprouting up ALL OVER THE COUNTRY after the (UN)Afordable Care Act went into effect. The cost of insurance and healthcare skyrocketed and the quality of care dropped significantly. Within the last few years of living in Ohio, I had multiple physicians leave the medical field. This is not just a problem in Florida.

[Keefelane66]

Originally Posted by Papa_lecki

This, when Sumter county was threatening to impose the impact fee, they moved the hospital into Lake County (see one of GoldWing Nut’s videos).

The new hospital will be a teaching hospital - it will be brand new and state of the art.
And the students will have access to the entire UF health system, including Jacksonville.

Florida is just opening up its nursing licensing system to a network allow reciprocity for nurses - the traveling nurses I know would love to come here, but their license doesnt transfer yet.

You are WRONG
“ all 50 states now practice reciprocity ever since NCLEX (National Council Licensure Examination) became standardized nationally. If your license is valid and you have clean disciplinary/legal record in your state, just apply and pay a fee to be granted another license in the state you desire.” Since 1982

[PugMom]

Originally Posted by oneclickplus

My daughter worked in cardiac care in a Maryland teaching hospital until the Covid vaccine mandates. She was told to take the shot or take a walk. She ended up being forced out and then finishing her business degree. By the time they called her begging her to take her job back (with a sign-on bonus), she had graduated with honors and was working for one of the big accounting / consulting firms. She is done with the health care field and not going back. Mandates have consequences.

P.S. My entire family remains mRNA vaccine free and we've not lost a single person to Covid.

you brought up a topic i hesitated mentioning, for obvious reasons. so much truth in what you said

[Roron123]

You are right! I’m a retired RN and worked in Saudi Arabia with Philipine nurses and they were hard working people! They would do great here in the US!!

[CoachKandSportsguy]

Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna

I agree with other posters here—the healthcare problem in the U.S. is getting worse. It can’t improve until we begin training enough new doctors to replace those leaving the profession. Last year 114,000 doctors retired or left practice for other reasons. But U.S. medical schools only graduated something like 76,000 new doctors. The shortfall will have to be made up by doctors trained in foreign medical schools who choose to emigrate to the U.S..

Not the problem. The payer is the issue. Most hospitals are non profit, have requirements to take medicare, and also non insured individuals. The government makes up the difference based upon incentives and performance.

However, the health insurance companies are the payers, and they are profit oriented and in a competitive market. So they are incentivized to have competitive rates, increased bonuses, increases shareholder profits, and so they squeeze the hospital payer rates.

There is a wonderful article on UHC's decision to cut off healthcare insurance to ONE individual because the cost of keeping the college student alive was $2M per year for drugs. . . All the doctors' were providing the best care in the country. . UHC was seeing segment profits falling below budget targets. . . so their doctor's evaluation starting disagreeing with the hospital specialist docs for care requirements, and now there are lawsuits . . .

So its not about the number of doctors or the quality of the doctors, but about the payer, medicare or private insurance. . . and the insurance companies with profit over healthcare, are slowing eroding the healthcare quality as the hospitals and doctors are slowly losing their incomes to be able to do what they do beyond annual exam, accidental repairs, and general population issues, such as diabetes, and viral sicknesses. . ie, specialty care will be the first to lose its payer funding as very expensive versus routine care. .

good luck and stay healthy, maybe forgo that arby's beef and cheddar with bacon along with pickle ball without a helmet

doctor guy

[Villages Kahuna]

The current political disagreement about permitting ANY foreigners into the U.S. will be self-defeating. What we should be doing is recruiting all those new graduates with Masters and PhD’s and MD degrees, offering them a real fast track to citizenship.

Because the U.S. birth rate has been so low for decades, we are desperately short of young people to enter the work force to replace the aging population who are no longer working. Our problem is exacerbated by our lagging education system, compared to many other developed countries.

The ONLY solution to our problem of having far more jobs than people to perform them is to permit foreigner to enter the U.S. to work. The key to that strategy is to recruit those who are experienced and educated to do the jobs we need performed! That would include all those talented, experienced, hard working Philippine nurses that we’re currently keeping out of the U.S.

[JMintzer]

Those who think it's only low Medicare payments that are the problem are waaay off base.

Most private insurance companies have lowered their payments to near Medicare rates...

[CoachKandSportsguy]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

Those who think it's only low Medicare payments that are the problem are waaay off base.

Most private insurance companies have lowered their payments to near Medicare rates...

Because they don't want to sacrifice their profit and bonuses like other industries have to at times. . .