Reply #3: it has been killing jobs in the health care industry

[northernlights]

Uncertainty over the outcome and increasing pressures from things like unpaid reimbursements from medicare has caused local hospitals to cut staff dramatically.

For someone like me, who took a big risk and went back to school for Med Lab Technology, this is a potential disaster. I have $35K in student loans to pay back. Not sure there will be work when I graduate this spring. They weren't able to find clinical slots for everybody, so had to use the fallback for a large number of students.

In the meantime, I saw a big "Thank You" article to our new teabagger governor, who released an emergency budget that included paying back ~half of the $9M owed to one local hospital. They have been on the brink of going under for the last year or two now. Dumped their entire MLT organization and contracted back a portion of it for lower wages and no benefits.

Congratulations. Robbing from one group of workers to pay another group of workers...again. It's not a solution to destroy me. Or maybe it is for some of you. Well, bad news. If I'm not able to either 1. find work or 2. sell my home, I will be done by the end of summer. Don't think you will take my house in lieu of payment. I will burn it to the ground before checking out. So you still lose, assholes.