Last week, we had a packed webinar to discuss the future of health care and the hospital industry's nightmarish new “Home All Alone” plan.
Under this new scheme, hospitals are seeking to increase profits by sending acutely sick patients home to receive “care,” instead of at the hospital where they belong.
And this is just one example of their dangerous schemes. Right now, the industry is also trying to shift more nurses and health care workers into a precarious “gig worker” model. They are attempting to take a page out of Uber’s playbook and misclassify nurses as independent contractors, turning their jobs into gig work.
On the call, we discussed the impact of this model on patient care, job quality, and worker power.
In addition, we explored how these types of schemes by the hospital industry are a symptom of the fundamental difference between the corporate for-profit model and the care driven model of Medicare for All that nurses envision.
This gig work trend is just one example of the many ways that the corporate health care industry is trying to restructure our health care system to maximize their profits at the expense of patients and professional caregivers. We won’t allow it.
In solidarity,
Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All
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