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BelichicksBurner t1_je07mar wrote

Reply to comment by bigdog24681012 in What’s this symbol? Seen on cmc hospital in a more discreet area by notababyimatumor

This is literally all NH hospitals right now. CMC just had the most glaring example of it...but other hospitals aren't doing much better. They're all totally desperate for medical professionals. And if you think they're bad? Go check out some of the non-profits who don't have hospital level money.

I've seen docs hired by places that wouldn't even bring those same docs on for interviews 10 years ago. I've literally listened to doctors with severe mental illnesses go on unhinged tirades during team meetings...and nothing is done because the non-profits can't afford to lose them. I've seen prescribers who have severe health issues, to the point where they can't walk and have to have their nurses proofread all their notes that are still employed because they don't want to have a year long vacancy at the prescriber position while they to find someone new. The situation is quite dire and often stems from the same problem as everywhere else: rate of pay.

NH simply doesn't pay as well. Combine that with one of the higher property tax rates in the nation along with one of the highest costs of living...it just makes more sense if you're a medical professional to go work in MA. Sucks but until something changes, we're gonna keep seeing this bullshit. It isn't just medical professionals either, it's everywhere in NH. That's why Sununu is so desperate to bump state workers pay: they can't even get people in the door for interviews because the state pay rate for a LOT of their jobs have dipped well below market rate. I know for a fact that my job literally pays twice as much in other states and three times as much when compared to the same job on the federal pay scale.

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AMC4x4 t1_je1573k wrote

I remember a couple decades ago reading about how if you lived in NH, you enjoyed better healthcare than just about any other area of the country. My, how things change.

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BelichicksBurner t1_je16giq wrote

Lot of bad decisions over the years lead to this. Bad decisions they continue to make. GOP has already come out as opposed to the previously announced agreement for raises for state workers and they seem far more interested in engaging in culture wars than fixing actual issues.

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Iamtheonewhobawks t1_je1uk4x wrote

For many issues, the GOP doesn't just have no plan to fix them; they see them as ideological successes. Employees are supposed to be disposable. Things like healthcare are supposed to be dramatically different for the rich and poor.

Spending money and time making and maintaining a functional system for anyone but the rich is antithetical to the fundamentals of conservatism. Material wealth is directly correlated with human worth to the GOP. The hospital that makes the most money, the argument goes, must therefore be the best hospital. If people aren't recieving adequate care then it's either because they're undeserving OR it's that healthcare quite literally cannot be improved further. They're wrong, of course, but when has simply being wrong ever mattered in politics?

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AMC4x4 t1_je16qr6 wrote

>far more interested in engaging in culture wars than fixing actual issues.

That's been their "bad decision" playbook pretty much since I was born, if not before. I thought at some point people would be sick of it. The House (edit: locally and nationally, it seems) is an utter clown show right now and the only ones paying attention to its complete and utter dysfunction are those who are smart enough to already know what a joke it is.

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