oh dear God, please no!:faint:

Catholic schools would not tolerate half the crap from today's students. it's my guess they'd be expelled by noon, no questions asked:posting:

too funny! my Britsih hubby prefers Jamaicans :smiley:

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.

The plans for the new UF Hospital south of 44 which was supposed to be built on the Lake County line has been put on hold. I heard a Villages Hospital official talk at a Villages club meeting this winter and he said that hospitals are no longer profitable and that the new UF hospital is not moving forward at this time. He also talked about the nursing shortage and that they were thinking of getting foreign nurses.

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

some never get over student dr leaving an instrument inside

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.

Gone for good
 

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!!

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

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.

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. . .

can you elaborate on how this thesis impacts the private insurance reimbursement payments continually going down for hospitals while the insurance companies have record profits and bonuses?

Surely as an investor, you are on the side of the insurance companies' profits are more important than hospital reimbursement payments for the insureds' needs. .

Thanks for your inside and experience as a Dr but so many seem to know or offer more opinions with no experience.

This idea worked once, with Mother Theresa. Not any supporters since then.

My daughter, who works for a large for-profit hospital corporation in claim collection, would agree with you. She says the only way some hospitals are able to keep their doors open are the $ they collect from Medicare, as private insurance often no longer pays at a better rate than does the government. Also, Medicare pays on time, whereas the insurance companies delay payment. Aetna is especially difficult.

Yet every Tuesday the Daily Fun runs a section touting the Villages as Florida’s healthiest hometown. If the reasoning behind the argument was because of the residents living a active lifestyle incorporating many health activities, I’ll buy that. But touting the excellent healthcare in the area is nothing more than an insult to the intelligence of the papers readers.

I disagree with the idea of National Health Care Is needed here. With over 30 years as a health care provider I feel qualified to comment. My son and his wife both are physicians in Canada, both at the top of their specialties. Both out of training for about 15 years. Over the many years I have had the discussion of our medial system vs the National Health Care in Canada. As of now both, my son and his wife believe their health care system is beginning to fall apart. The over all percentage of medical care in the budget in Canada is ever increasing. It seems the politicians there are faced with raising taxes or cut services to pay for it all. To shorten this note there has been a very gradual cut in services and medical reimbursement not coming close to the no cost of living. Some procedures I think are being reimbursed at 2017 rates. To me it sounds as if their National Health Care system is starting to rupture. To compound this situation the pandemic has cut deep into Doctors/Nurses and support staff in their community. So for me we have our issues here in the United States, but it is a very big NO to National Health Care.