Ep. 21: Legislation to Cap Nurses Pay

Let’s talk about the proposed “nurse pay cap” and what that would mean for the healthcare industry. This topic can be quite controversial, but there are a few takeaways:

All consumers that are able can contact your local representatives to let them know how you feel about legislation, advocate for competitive nurse pay.

Also, what you hear in the news and on social media is rarely ever the whole story. 

 

This week it’s about hospitals accusing travel nurse agencies of bleeding them of all of their money so that they can stay in business. For the last 2 years hospitals have complained that supply shortages are to blame. Covid is to blame for too many sick patients; hospitals can’t keep up. In years past it’s been that revenues are down, costs keep rising, insurance payouts are low, it’s allllways something. 

 

Are travel nurses agencies Really getting paid billions of dollars? 

 

It’s an interesting topic and we’ll keep discussing it as it revolves in the next few weeks and moths!

 

Read the letter and signees here:
https://morgangriffith.house.gov/uploadedfiles/wh_nurse_staffing.pdf

Find your state representative and let them know you don’t support this letter: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

 

Here’s where the ANA stands with nurses:

https://www.nursingworld.org/news/news-releases/2021/ana-calls-on-congress-and-the-administration-to--investigate-and-mitigate-the-root-causes-of-nurse-shortages/

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