usui
12 hours ago
The only reason healthcare professionals in the US can demand salaries this high and even higher is because supply is artificially constrained. There are many qualified prospective students adept, intelligent, studious, and diligent enough that they would join the healthcare field were it not for the financial barriers, hazing-like process, and unnecessary performative work you have to get through to even be admitted to a school. Because of the undergraduate/professional school tiering system, many pre-health students choose majors that don't help them at all in the event that they decide to give up their professional degree midway or change directions, making it particularly ruinous financially and career-wise.
bsder
11 hours ago
> The only reason healthcare professionals in the US can demand salaries this high and even higher is because supply is artificially constrained.
This article is a naked attempt to deflect from the understaffing problem. People don't strike for money--when you go on strike you never get the lost salary back. You almost never get enough of a raise to economically justify going on strike, ever.
Nursing supply is not artificially constrained like doctor supply. Nurses can much more easily move jobs and locations. What is driving up nursing salaries is the fact that the job sucks and drives them out of the field--generally by burning them out.
And, it's generally not caring for people that is the problem. It's almost always the fact that the hospitals are monopolies and understaff their nurses. It doesn't matter how much you are paid, you simply cannot do work that requires two people. And, when things go wrong, the hospital and the doctors will try to throw the nurses under the bus.