You can’t legislate the law of supply and demand
Iowa House is 64-36 Republican.
Travel nurses won’t work in Iowa then, if I understand correctly.
Betting this is being lobbied for by Big Med.
Does the state of Iowa also regulate hospital CEO pay ?
What about traveling doctors ?
So, minimum wage, no skill fast food places aren’t paying enough, but skilled nurses are being payed too much?
Screw the ‘budget’ problem. It’s a free market issue; not a government issue.
When my dad was in the hospital for a month last year, two of the best (IMO) nurses left to become ‘traveling’ nurses. Both were single, looking forward to going new places & of course, being paid very well. Iowa won’t have to worry about paying traveling nurses because they’ll go where the money is & it’s not going to be Iowa.
It sounds like the legislature has thrown taxpayer money at the nursing homes and this is their fix. Maybe a little less vote-buying on the taxpayer’s back would be better.
My daughter is a traveler in Texas, Emergency Room Radiology, she is getting paid more than double than she was as a full time employee at the local Hospital, she was a year ago.
Dumb move.
Am I mistaken in believing that most of these traveling nurses work on a Per Diem basis and do not get benefits and are most likely paid a gross amount without any withholding. If that is true their real wages may already be in line with what full time staff nurses earn. I doubt it is more when the numbers are run.
They will get far fewer nurses who will be willing to leave home for weeks or months at a time, and Iowans will suffer.
...because central planning from politicians and bureaucrats has such a great track record.
Dumb. Criminally dumb.
I get that hospitals don’t want to pay for help, but this is not the way to help that. Maybe cut back on the bonus for admin.
The GOP is trying to kill themselves.