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Originally Posted by speedygirl
Yes, close to 3 years I think. Mitt Romney signedit into law. It's done on a scale according to your pay and those that already get free MassHealth will still remain on it.
It's kept me working a lot more then I'd like, lol. I could work every hour of the day because now that everyone in the state is insured, we need more qualified healthcare professionals. It's created a job boom in the healthcare field.
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How have health care wages been affected ?
Also going back a while.....in hospitals where they were looking to 'make cuts', they took away some of the nursing duties and hired 'less qualified' (meaning non-nurses) to handle some of the responsibilities of patient care. It was scary.
Some of those people barely spoke English, had very little training or understanding of 'patient care'....it wasn't their fault, they were just cheap labor and hospitals looked to save by delegating some responsibilities. End result, patient care went downhill, as things which would've been 'caught' (recognized) by the nurse being familiar with their patient was now being overlooked as they spent way less time with the patient. And the nurses became so overworked and overburdened by the increased responsibility and workload to cover more patients at a 'high' level of care.