I wrote an essay (with sources! and data!) about what cutting Medicaid actually means because people don’t have good perspective on it.
I wrote an essay (with sources! and data!) about what cutting Medicaid actually means because people don’t have good perspective on it.
It’s like that in some other countries as well. In the UK, the NHS funding has been whittled away to the point that people with the means to do so are turning to private healthcare because of the wait times and the physicians are going on strike because of the poor pay and working conditions.
Healthcare around the world is a house of cards right now, and we really didn’t do anything to reinforce it in a meaningful way during/after the pandemic. The next pandemic is going to be quite bad.
Aren’t some of your healthcare staff on public assistance as well due to low pay? Money and capacity required. You can’t have capacity without personnel. You can’t have personnel if they’re not paid well so you also need money.
Over here, some of our mental health systems (corporate level) are robust because they make sure they have money making clientele alongside the money sink clientele, all under one roof. These systems generally pay well and stay in business. Other places try do one thing and specialize in that one thing, only to fail due to lack of money and personnel. There will be passionate players who want nothing more than to make it work, but at the end of the day staff need to pay rent, buy their kids shoes, and have money to spend on personal decompression. So you see these one trick institutions die off every year.
As much as we want health to run on altruism and good intentions, health personnel anywhere need to be paid an incentive level pay, and have enough left over to engage a work life balance to recharge their own mental health, or it will all crash and burn eventually.