Greatest Healthcare? Has Anyone Tried Calling for a Nurse When Hospitalized?

By GottaLaff

Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash, via my pal Mark Karlin:

BuzzFlash wrote about a study awhile back in which the U.S. was ranked 17th in the quality of its healthcare. The fact is most of the Western nations with single payer systems have better healthcare at a cheaper cost. In Canada, which the right wing media shills refer to as a nation with "socialized" medicine, residents live longer than Americans. [...]

But all that aside, we are baffled by the notion that opponents of health care reform claim; that the U.S. has the best healthcare in the world.

Has anyone tried calling for a nurse while hospitalized recently? [...]

We love nurses -- and the California's Nurses Union is one of the most progressive labor organizations in the nation, for example -- but most hospitals have cut nursing staffing levels way below comfort level and health safety in the U.S. It's not the fault of the nurses; it's a failed system of care.

That's because hospital bean counters are cutting back basic care to ensure profits or fat salaries for the administrators and the specialized physicians. [...]

Healthcare now is about profit, not so much care. [...]

As a result, we just keep falling further behind in healthcare, as we continue to press that nurse call button, with no response.

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