Posted on 10/30/2021 8:54:36 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) visited Stony Brook University on Long Island to highlight the need for more workforce development programs in the medical field. She said the pandemic has been hard on hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
In a letter to her congressional colleagues, she wants $67 million in federal funding for healthcare workforce development programs.
“They desperately need reinforcements. Staff are physically and emotionally burnt out and hospitals across the entire state have been working with skeleton crews. More than 5 million New Yorkers live in primary care health professional shortage areas,” said Gillibrand. “If we don’t act, the problem will continue to grow.”
Gillibrand said the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated a shortage in healthcare workers. The Association of American Medical Colleges estimates a nationwide shortfall in doctors due to stress from the pandemic, and New York alone is projected to lose more than 39,000 registered nurses by 2030, according to state health officials.
The money would be allocated to Area Health Education Centers, regional hubs that help with student recruitment, job creation for recent graduates and increase diversity in the medical field. There are 250 education centers nationwide, nine of which are in New York. Gillibrand said more funding would provide the resources necessary to cope with the current pandemic and ongoing staff shortages.
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printed money solves all problems.
Well senator, if you marxists would stop firing people for defying your ill considered vaccine mandates that would solve the problem.
the death shots are solving their “problems”
plus hospital protocols in place are killing people by ifnoring ivermectin and instead putting people on ventilators and remdesivir to murder them
I suggest they pull their head out of their -ss, and get the
people let go, back on staff.
NOBODY should bail these idiots out! NOBODY!
This is how they’ll attempt (and, hopefully NOT succeed) nationalized healthcare.
Build back better with Socialism.
The Medicos are now enemies of healthcare.
Thank you CDC and Fauxcy.
Why should tax payers in the other 49 states pay to fix what NY broke?
Of course she does.
If you hadn’t fired them...
... but then you probably expect 10% of the money allocated, right?
National healthcare leads quickly to socialism/Marxism.
It would deliver universal mediocre care.
No physician in their right mind could embrace it... they carry a staggering load of debt from loans, they have very little free time.. they make a nominally decent income but that would drastically decline under single-payer... they won’t stand for it... hospitals would be staffed by poorly trained “physicians” brought in from foreign shores.
That’s the absolute truth!
Well...maybe if they didn’t do this to their employees..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4008385/posts
Agree, 100%!!
That’s why these NY commies could care less if they lose these heroes….who happened to have cared for sick people….ALL LAST YEAR….without being “vax”d.
Now, it’s a firing offense??
😡😡
If I were a democrat the thing I’d do to fight skyrocketing inflation and increasingly rampant shortages would be to make it illegal for a large portion of the citizenry to work. This seems like a flawless plan, what could go wrong?
My walk has become rather silly.
And I think with government funding I could develop it into an official silly walk
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