Over the last few months, we’ve written to you about the hospital industry's nightmarish plans to increase profits by sending sick patients back home to receive “care,” misclassifying nurses as independent contractors, and attempting to turn more jobs into gig work.
Now corporations like CVS and tech startup companies are trying to harness new technologies like artificial intelligence and remote monitoring to justify unsafe at-home care for acutely ill patients.
These issues are urgent, which is why we’re hosting a live webinar next week to learn more about how our communities can fight to ensure that new technologies do not keep deepening the injustices of our broken, profit-driven health care system.
The consequences of these technologies for nurses and patients are serious. For nurses, they increase nurse-to-patient ratios by jacking up the number of patients nurses are enlisted to care for remotely. And for patients, new technologies like AI, algorithms, and data analytics are widening racial health disparities and degrading the quality of care that bedside nurses provide.
Under our current system, new technologies like these are being used to squeeze more profit from each patient by removing them from hospitals and substituting virtual monitoring for hands-on care.
Make no mistake, things would be very different under Medicare for All. A Medicare for All system ensures profit-driven actors like startups aren’t developing health care technology to serve their own interests rather than the interests of patients and caregivers.
Join us next week to talk more about these dangerous new trends and how we can fight back against them.
If you don’t want to miss this essential discussion about the next battleground for the future of health care, please RSVP here for our webinar that’s just 7 days away.
Hope to see you there,
Jasmine Ruddy
Organizer
Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All
P.S. To bring awareness to “Home All Alone” schemes, we created a video that illuminates just how dangerous these programs can be for patients. Please take two minutes to watch it here.
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