{"id":403473,"date":"2019-04-21T08:14:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T07:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nurses-are-leading-strike-efforts-where-are-the-physicians\/"},"modified":"2019-04-21T08:14:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T07:14:50","slug":"nurses-are-leading-strike-efforts-where-are-the-physicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nurses-are-leading-strike-efforts-where-are-the-physicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurses Are Leading Strike Efforts \u2014 Where Are the Physicians?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U.S. healthcare \u201csystem\u201d is completely and utterly broken. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. system ranks 37th in the world<\/a>, all while spending dramatically more on healthcare<\/a> than other wealthy countries. Tens of millions remain without any health insurance coverage. For many, medical bills can mean economic ruin\u2014some surveys show that up to 66.5% of all bankruptcies in the U.S<\/a>. are a result of medical expenses. On the front lines of this system are nurses and physicians\u2014individuals who, by and large, decided to go into the profession to help patients and communities\u2014are becoming more frustrated by their inability to do just that, sometimes even causing providers to leave the profession<\/a>. While many inside the U.S. medical industrial complex have had enough, nurses throughout New York City (NYC) are putting their collective foot down and showing us the way to fight for better outcomes for patients and better working conditions for providers.<\/p>\n

In March, members of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) at New York\u2019s \u201cbig four\u201d hospitals (Montefiore, Mount Sinai, New York Presbyterian-Columbia and Mount Sinai West\/St. Luke\u2019s) voted by an overwhelming 97% margin to authorize a strike<\/a>. The nurses\u2019 fight centers around conditions for patient care, including safer staffing ratios inside hospitals so that nurses can adequately care for each patient. Throughout NYC, nurses are forced to work long shifts and are chronically understaffed. The nurses who recently threatened to strike recognize that these working conditions are part of hospital executives\u2019 push to squeeze greater and greater profits out of workers at the expense of patient health\u2014and they have had enough. New York nurses are fighting just as teachers across the country did earlier this year\u2014including the tens of thousands of Los Angeles teachers who struck last January for better conditions for in schools. They are discussing the strike option just as more than <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The U.S. healthcare \u201csystem\u201d is completely and utterly broken. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. system ranks 37th in the world, all while spending dramatically more on healthcare than other wealthy countries. Tens of millions remain without any health insurance coverage. For many, medical bills can mean economic ruin\u2014some surveys show that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}