Your stats reveal why American healthcare has deteriorated so sharply in the last 50 years. Grandma is to be taken care the way me and my three brothers took care of my grandfather - by the family and my paying for assistance from his nursing home.
That's great for families that have the time and resources to care for the frail elderly who require nursing home care. But what if you don't and/or your family doesn't have the resources to hire extra help to supplement the short-staffing at many nursing homes? Our nation is badly in need of greater empathy for those who are less fortunate than we are. (My family also hired extra help -- both for my mom and my older brother when they required permanent nursing home care. In my mom's case, that extra worker was foreign-born -- from Cameroon -- and to this day I have no idea if she was a legal resident despite her having what appeared to be a valid social security card.)
Empathy and compassion for others which is virtuous never comes from government. We have personally donated to others in need of healthcare services. This country was far better off before government got involved in healthcare. There are private organizations such as Medishare who pool resources from subscribers to take are of those in need. There is no reason why able bodied people cannot care for themselves and learn skills to succeed in life rather than demanding that others pay taxes to a government bureaucracy to "care" for them.
I was involved in the construction trades when I was younger. I would gladly bet that fully 50% of the roofers, framers, insulators, and highway workers are not only immigrants, but a large percentage of them are illegal immigrants! Without these excellent workers the construction industry will grind to a near-standstill.
Nobody will take care of Grandma--and I'm a grandmother. I do NOT intend to find myself relegated to an understaffed nursing home with undertrained underpaid workers who just might steal the pain meds my severe spinal misalignment requires, not to mention that these meds also prevent severe and nearly constant leg spasms. Without them, I'd lie all day and all night in excruciating pain, with my body writhing.
I cannot turn around the evils of Project 2025. I'm far too old to fight injustice as I did in the 1960s. My plan? I've saved up some of each pain meds prescription I got after my recent surgeries. When my mind starts to falter I'll get assessed every year. Once diagnosed with early stage dementia, I'll take every pill. I'm just praying I won't have an incapacitating stroke before I can do that.
If I'd realized that the GOP's evilest plans would move this fast, I'd have migrated decades ago to Canada or perhaps to a European country after brushing up on French, Spanish, or Italian (I doubt I could master any Scandinavian language). It never occurred to me that social media would lead to propaganda so effective and widespread that a demon like the orange felon could be elected.
As Dr. Santos points out in the podcast, we have long had a pathway for foreign-trained and foreign-born physicians to get visas to practice in the U.S. That's why they make up 20% of the physician workforce. The same is true for registered nurses. The mass deportation of illegals will mostly affect the home health aides, nursing assistants and other semi-skilled workers that are crucial to the personal care, food service, janitorial and other semi-skilled services delivered inside health care institutions. That's where Trump/Miller's crackdown will have its biggest impact.
Your stats reveal why American healthcare has deteriorated so sharply in the last 50 years. Grandma is to be taken care the way me and my three brothers took care of my grandfather - by the family and my paying for assistance from his nursing home.
That's great for families that have the time and resources to care for the frail elderly who require nursing home care. But what if you don't and/or your family doesn't have the resources to hire extra help to supplement the short-staffing at many nursing homes? Our nation is badly in need of greater empathy for those who are less fortunate than we are. (My family also hired extra help -- both for my mom and my older brother when they required permanent nursing home care. In my mom's case, that extra worker was foreign-born -- from Cameroon -- and to this day I have no idea if she was a legal resident despite her having what appeared to be a valid social security card.)
Empathy and compassion for others which is virtuous never comes from government. We have personally donated to others in need of healthcare services. This country was far better off before government got involved in healthcare. There are private organizations such as Medishare who pool resources from subscribers to take are of those in need. There is no reason why able bodied people cannot care for themselves and learn skills to succeed in life rather than demanding that others pay taxes to a government bureaucracy to "care" for them.
I was involved in the construction trades when I was younger. I would gladly bet that fully 50% of the roofers, framers, insulators, and highway workers are not only immigrants, but a large percentage of them are illegal immigrants! Without these excellent workers the construction industry will grind to a near-standstill.
Nobody will take care of Grandma--and I'm a grandmother. I do NOT intend to find myself relegated to an understaffed nursing home with undertrained underpaid workers who just might steal the pain meds my severe spinal misalignment requires, not to mention that these meds also prevent severe and nearly constant leg spasms. Without them, I'd lie all day and all night in excruciating pain, with my body writhing.
I cannot turn around the evils of Project 2025. I'm far too old to fight injustice as I did in the 1960s. My plan? I've saved up some of each pain meds prescription I got after my recent surgeries. When my mind starts to falter I'll get assessed every year. Once diagnosed with early stage dementia, I'll take every pill. I'm just praying I won't have an incapacitating stroke before I can do that.
If I'd realized that the GOP's evilest plans would move this fast, I'd have migrated decades ago to Canada or perhaps to a European country after brushing up on French, Spanish, or Italian (I doubt I could master any Scandinavian language). It never occurred to me that social media would lead to propaganda so effective and widespread that a demon like the orange felon could be elected.
A bottle of pills and a bottle of whisky are my disability plan.
I so wish we lived in a civilized country... I once believed we did. That proverbial rug has been pulled out from under us.
As Dr. Santos points out in the podcast, we have long had a pathway for foreign-trained and foreign-born physicians to get visas to practice in the U.S. That's why they make up 20% of the physician workforce. The same is true for registered nurses. The mass deportation of illegals will mostly affect the home health aides, nursing assistants and other semi-skilled workers that are crucial to the personal care, food service, janitorial and other semi-skilled services delivered inside health care institutions. That's where Trump/Miller's crackdown will have its biggest impact.