Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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Rab said:

This crisis affects the healthcare system, Nurses, Doctors and other medical personnel have had their incomes slashed, this is particularly true in the US system as there is no M4A

Coronavirus: Why so many US nurses are out of work

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

"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."

"Dr Parks says she has been considering filing for unemployment benefits to try to help make student loan repayments."

"Dr Jenab is a physician in emergency medicine in Denver, Colorado. To her, the problem has become clear.

 

"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.

 "They tend to run very lean with these hospitals, with these large corporate medical groups because honestly they are much more concerned about profit than their patients," she says, clearly impassioned.

 Dr Jenab says she feels the abrupt loss of income suffered by medical staff is just one systemic problem in US private healthcare that has been thrown into sharp relief by the coronavirus crisis."

Cutting the wages of the board members by 10% instead would probably have saved just as much money without endangering the lives of countless persons due to lack of nurses. But since the US healthcare preaches to the dollar god instead of caring for the sick (or even just their employees), they rather cut down on medical professionals during a medical crisis.

Seriously, they should be charged with manslaughter for omission and gross negligence of their Duty to Rescue.