Best health care system in the world my fuckin ass!

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16. Yes, echos of Cynatnite's expression

As a fellow 20 plus year medical technology veteran, I can echo Cynatnite's responses here. Your frustrations are terrible, and the worst thing that patient care staff, (not just doctors) fights--- especially private healthcare conglomerates about. Until the nephew of one of the high-up's in the hospital administration gets admitted to their own facility, do they discover what all the cuts, cuts, cuts cuts they've been doing for the last 20 years do to the system. It's broken. Between insurance co's taking far more than their share and the "administrative costs"... ahem... "Sorry, sir, we have no nurses or technical staff anymore". I can't count how many facilities "do" with half the patient care staff they had 10 or 20 years ago!!!
And that gets far, far worse in "right to work" states that have very little protections from overloading nurses with too many patients.
So many facilities stretch the patient care staff to the absolute limits and beyond. Stress anyone? Burnout is so common, but demand down as well--- not to lack of need!!! but to administrations who say we must do "more with less, more with less, and more with even less" till the job is just un-do-able. That's not even mentioning how hard it is to deal with sick, upset, painful and frustrated patients. Every meeting at one place I was a couple years ago was a constant reminder of how easily we could be replaced!!
"For-Profit" turns medical care into a nightmare for everyone involved. Unfortunately it's most facilities, then the "not for profit" must compete.
This country, the damn "tea" party idiots and the repug's did this country a great disservice not making it a single payer system. Only the very rich will get medical care that is acceptable until this changes.