Reply #29: Yeah. He's from SOuth Carolina

[Heddi]

a very anti-union, right-to-work state. Has high level of poverty, etc.

Hell, even Washington has a higher-than-federal-minimum wage. I think federal min wage is $5.15, but Wa. state min wage is $7.15.

When I lived & Worked in SC, I nearly creamed myself the first time I got a job that paid $8 an hour. That's like BIG TIME MONEY.

And what you say about patients suffering long term v. short term is true, but I just can't reconcile patients having to suffer under ANY Conditions. Of course, I'm not aware of any reports of patient deaths during nursing strikes.

Of course, if this Administration had any interest in "homeland security", they would do more to make it easier for people to enter nursing school, fund community colleges that offer nursing programs, and make it more appealing for people to become nurses. I mean, howcan you have a secure homeland when so many people don't have health insurance, when hospitals are understaffed---there's an estimated 1 MILLION nursing positions open right now, and that number is expected to double by 2020 IF NOT SOONER>

If there were a major attack on any city in America, those people affected would be fucked. There is not an adequate number of health care professionals in ANY city in the US (or in the world, for that matter) to care for the people that are routinely sick now---much less if even 10% of the population of any city were to suffer at one time.

National Security doesn't mean armies overseas and lots of guns. National Security means just that---national security. You cannot have national security if something as basic as health care is so unobtainable to so many, and so understaffed with qualified and educated personnel ready adn willing to take care of the masses when they're in need.