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This will be a damning consequence of Donald Trump's incompetence as the very people that saved lives during the crisis are the next victims.
Health care workers are becoming unemployed in unusually large numbers as hospitals suffer declining revenues from disruption of normal healthcare business as Covid19 response absorbs all their resources.
Could there be bankruptcies of hospitals?
Healthcare workers have become yesterday's heroes. It is credible that other first responders will also suffer as state governments have huge budget deficits.
Donald Trump and the GOP are resisting aid to state governments and are not even considering helping hospitals and healthcare workers.
As Hospitals Lose Revenue, More Than A Million Health Care Workers Lose Jobs
Health care workers are becoming unemployed in unusually large numbers as hospitals suffer declining revenues from disruption of normal healthcare business as Covid19 response absorbs all their resources.
Could there be bankruptcies of hospitals?
Healthcare workers have become yesterday's heroes. It is credible that other first responders will also suffer as state governments have huge budget deficits.
Donald Trump and the GOP are resisting aid to state governments and are not even considering helping hospitals and healthcare workers.
As Hospitals Lose Revenue, More Than A Million Health Care Workers Lose Jobs
As Hospitals Lose Revenue, More Than A Million Health Care Workers Lose Jobs
May 8, 20205:04 AM ET
Meg Anderson - 2019
MEG ANDERSON
As part of a demonstration across from the White House on May 7, National Nurses United set out empty shoes for nurses who have died from COVID-19. The union is asking employers and the government to provide safe workplaces, including adequate staffing. Hospitals have been laying off and furloughing nurses due to lost revenue.
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Updated at 9:00 a.m. ET
Michelle Sweeney could barely sleep. The nurse in Plymouth, Mass., had just learned she would be furloughed. She only had four hours the next day to call all of her patients.
"I was in a panic state. I was sick over it," Sweeney said. "Our patients are the frailest, sickest group."
Sweeney works for Atrius Health as a case manager for patients with chronic health conditions and those who have been discharged from the hospital or emergency room.
"It's very devaluing, like a slap in the face," Sweeney said. "Nursing is who you are ... I've never been unemployed my entire life."
It's an ironic twist as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the nation: The very workers tasked with treating those afflicted with the virus are losing work in droves. Emergency room visits are down. Non-urgent surgical procedures have largely been put on hold. Health care spending fell 18% in the first three months of the year. And 1.4 million health care workers lost their jobs in April, a sharp increase from the 42,000 reported in March, according to the Labor Department. Nearly 135,000 of the April losses were in hospitals. ...