A Major Medical Staffing Company Just Slashed Benefits for Doctors and Nurses Fighting Coronavirus | Talking Points Memo

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Well the BIGLY SWAMP Corporations heard/read those BIGLY words that Covidiot Trump released…”Hortatory but not mandatory”… hence follow their greedy and immoral leader!

Congress need to act on this ASAP and get their Congressional Covid Relied Oversight Comm up and running…too many pandemic vultures taking advantage/profiting already!

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This is why Health Care should not be privatized! The shareholders need to suck it up. They are either part of the problem or part of the solution. The focus on the almighty dollar is killing this country.

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I can’t use my words right now, :cold_face::exploding_head::face_with_symbols_over_mouth::angry::rage::rage::rage::rage:

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capitalism at it’s best

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Another case:

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Didn’t Congress just pass a 2 trillion dollar bail out to handle stuff like this?

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And this is the health care system the USA promotes as the best in the world? Hard to believe this is acceptable to ANY citizens at this point in time.

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BUT! There will be NO changes to the executive compensation or bonuses!
Think of their children!

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It’s interesting how these companies absorb immense amounts of wealth during good times but never seem to have a nickel when things go south. They are playing chess in the accounting department to show they need another welfare check from Uncle Sugar. .

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“Other employers will soon follow suit, Holtzclaw said, citing conversations with his counterparts across the industry.”

If employers across an industry can conspire to suppress wages and benefits … such collusion has to be made totally illegal. The penalty should be at least 10 years prison time.

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And more about financial pressures in rural hospitals. I understand why there are financial problems, but I don’t understand why the solutions need to come on the backs of the healthcare workers.

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So it turns out all the money that has been pushed up to the CEO had a purpose in a stable business.

This is the bonfire of the vanities. I see on the news there is ‘0 reported cases’ in Florida today.

Don’t test, and they can’t prove you wrong. I hate these people.

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Not April fools

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And take all their profits from the last 10 years.

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Our shitty, for-profit healthcare system may have just gained a few thundering voices to advocate for its swift demise.

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Bullshit. They want a slice of Bailout Pie.

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Bloodless. Piece of shit.

But what would anyone expect when he would doom his own nephew to the same fate?

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Stay healthy y’all, we’ve got work to do and vengeance to seek.

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