r/FluentInFinance • u/The-Lucky-Investor • 13d ago

“Medicare for All” would save the U.S $5.1 Trillion over 10 years Discussion/ Debate

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/30/easy-pay-something-costs-less-new-study-shows-medicare-all-would-save-us-51-trillion
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u/dskimilwaukee 13d ago

RN here. Hospital cutting staff or running thin to save money. They sure as shit don't pay nurses enough either. All about maximizing profits for the c suites.

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u/GrandmaCheese1 13d ago

Another issue that gets overlooked is the pay for instructors.

In my state, all Nursing instructors (except for clinical instructors) are required to have their Masters with a focus in education, but most positions are about the same pay as a bedside nurse.

Why am I going to go into debt to pursue a significantly higher degree to get paid the same amount of money?

You need more instructors to allow for more potential nurses to hit the workforce.

I’ve always considered education further into my future but can’t justify going back for my BSN, then also my MSN, to make the same amount of money I am now.

If salaries start improving for educators or the requirements start to lower due to “The Nursing Shortage” that we’re all expecting, then I’ll probably get into when I get older.

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u/Loud-East1969 11d ago

I think that’s the norm for most professions. College professor isn’t exactly a lucrative career nowadays.

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u/Big-Leadership1001 11d ago

At least professors can get tenure and have a guaranteed long term career. Nurses don't know if they will be cut next week let alone where they will be in 10 years.

I think both suffer the same overall problem of executives scooping up all of the increasingly unaffordable money and shitting on everyone else who actually does the work itself.