Remember when the AMA fought against Nurse Practitioners having increased responsibilities in care providing settings?

Look at the trains - we said things would break if we allowed workers to strike to pursue things like better staffing ratios and safer working conditions. The strike was prevented/broken and East Palestine is paying for the greed of the railroads.

It seems like these hospitals *will* break as a matter of when, not if. The number of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other neurodegen. disease patients is going to increase significantly as boomers and millenials age.

The for-profit hospitals' dilemma during the pandemic (a short-term shock of many patients everywhere at the same time) could not be resolved by clever management of travel nurses. Just-in-time deliberately removes as much slack as possible to turn it into profit, patients and care providers be damned.

We can pull the band-aid off sooner or we can deal with infection and sepsis later, but the bill for these profits that most of us don't see will come due.