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The New York Times Is Destroying Our Hospitals
NYT Destroys Nurses, Patients, and Hospitals to Make Massive Profit
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America is facing a national nursing shortage.
The biggest force that’s driving nurses away: greedy hospitals.
To maximize profits, American hospitals have been intentionally understaffing nurses for decades, long before the pandemic. What the hospital industry doesn’t want you to know is that there’s never been more licensed nurses in America. Hospitals just aren’t hiring them.
To understand how the situation became so desperate, you have to remember that hospitals are just like any other business. Staffing takes up about half the budget. So a smaller workforce means bigger profits.
The NYT blames “greedy hospitals” for a nursing shortage, but they aren’t any more or less greedy than the USG or NYT in doing what’s in their perceived self-interest, but only when the NYT is critiquing the Right and/or businesses do they pass such moral…
