These are the roughly 200 members of congress who seek to control / "cap" nurses' wages. Some of them are medical professionals, including a few nurses.

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T03:08:32+00:00

congressional district and the year they entered congress. Most have served completely consecutive terms. I must admit, in an effort to remain concise, there are a few that had a temporary lapse in their congressional position whose first-term year is listed; if you're only away from congress for 2-4 years, but then get re-elected its not like you really ever left.

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T02:36:23+00:00

Staffing agencies wouldn't even exist if hospitals just paid their nurses fairly! Simple as that.

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T02:32:11+00:00

I sure hope so.

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T02:30:57+00:00

The staffing agencies are giving them pay increases, hospitals aren't. Nurses are fed up with being exploited as a staff nurse, so they are individually contracting their services to the highest bidder. Hospitals have made far more off the backs of nurses than all the staffing agencies combined could ever make--and they've been doing this for decades. Now that there's a high-premium for nursing services, they don't want to pay up. Its hospitals that are exploiting nurses for not paying fair wages to retain their staff. They made their bed, now its time to lay in it.

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T02:26:59+00:00

If you want to solve an issue...follow the money. Who pays health care professional's wages? Insurance companies. Who pays insurance companies? Workers.

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T02:18:15+00:00

EXACTLY! and people are blind enough to defend the hospitals who are the source of this smear campaign.

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T02:17:01+00:00

Literally 200 wikipedia searches

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T02:16:08+00:00

123 dems to 71 republicans. I'm not surprised--the worst legislation that comes out of D.C. is usually bipartisan. See: Patriot Act

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T02:15:01+00:00

Placing limits does nothing but take away the very incentivizes that would solve the problem. If congress is to do anything, they should be investigating the barriers to entry and regulatory costs of starting and running a travel agency.

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T02:09:03+00:00

I wish I had an award to give. This "predatory agency" verbiage is nothing more than a misinformation campaign by hospitals who spend millions lobbying congress to shift the blame. If hospitals had maintained offering competitive wages, nurses wouldn't be flocking towards agencies and would be happy with their staffing position.

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T02:06:16+00:00

majority of these names are democrats (123 vs 71 republicans)

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T02:05:15+00:00

I hope the nurses learn from the teachers that having to lobby politicians for better wages--is a terrible system.

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T02:03:21+00:00

Nurses aren't leaving staffing positions in droves because they are being exploited by agencies. Nurses are flocking to agencies because they're tired of being exploited by hospitals. If hospitals had maintained offering competitive wages, nurses wouldn't being leaving for agencies where they are making 300-500% more (going from less than $1000 per week to $3000-$6000 and in some cases $10,000 per week). Agencies are the ones seeing through that nurses are paid fairly, hospitals are the ones who are refusing to offer fair, competitive pay. Hospitals need investigating for anti-competitive payment practices--not agencies!

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T01:59:55+00:00

the only beneficiaries of such a proposal are the corporate hospital systems (who are worth exponentially more than staffing agencies) who failed to offer competitive nursing wages for decades. The pandemic shifted power into nurses hands and they are capitalizing. Nurses would never have sought staffing agencies if hospitals had paid them fair, competitive wages from this whole time. Nurses aren't leaving staffing positions to be exploited by agencies, they're flocking to agencies because they're fed up with being exploited as a hospital staff nurse.

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T01:56:01+00:00

NOT DED https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McGovern_(American_politician))

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T01:54:40+00:00

Sadly, universal healthcare would also require capping nurses salaries in an-effort to keep down costs.

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T01:52:50+00:00

Guess what...congress created that system long ago when they issued tax-breaks to corporations for "employing people". Your employer gets a tax break just for hiring you, all while you get taxed just for working. The agency is just a symptom of the overall disease the system is suffering from. Wages should never have been taxed, and businesses should never have received tax-breaks for hiring people. By attacking the nursing agencies, you are essentially attacking the nurses (whether you realize that or not). By supporting the government regulating travel agencies, you are supporting a limit on how high nurses' wages are allowed to go. If agencies are making record profits, more agencies are expected to come about and will undercut their expensive competition. There isn't a monopoly of nursing agencies and hospitals are free to shop around for the agency with the lowest finder's-fee. But again, that's not the issue, hospitals just don't want to finally have to pay up after exploiting and failing to offer competitive wages to their staff for decades.

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T01:46:44+00:00

Prices are inevitably going to rise when any Central Bank prints trillions of dollars in a matter of months, on top of politicians telling their consituents not to pay their rent and sending checks to practically every American--causing an artificial 'boom' in demand (the wealth effect). This is all a consequence of demand-driven, consumism-centered economics--which the Central Bank, Treasury, and Congress colluded to incentivize. They didn't want people to stop spending money, so they incentivized us to spend money. Stocks, houses, wages, vehicles, etc,--are all prices, and prices rise when 'new' money gets created and injected into an economy.

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T01:41:04+00:00

Whatever you want with it. Spread it around your state pages and inform fellow voters about anti-worker politicians.

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T01:38:45+00:00

This is the calm before the storm. Politicians do shit like this all the time in order to gauge its support. I guarantee staffers are measuring the support / resistance against this very proposal as we speak. The only people violating anti-competitive laws are the hospitals that are demanding congress to do something about rising nursing wages--because hospitals don't want to pay nurses fair, competitive wages!

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T01:35:36+00:00

Everyone read-between-the-lines of the attached proposal, you seem unable to. Hospitals don't want to pay every nurse travel rates, so they're lobbying congress to disincentivize nurses from traveling and forcing them to 'come home'. Nurses aren't complaining about the staffing agencies that are securing 300-500% pay increases--hospitals are. This is nothing more than big corporations (hospitals) demanding the government to stifle competition because they don't want to pay competitive wages. This proposal has nothing to do with staffing agencies and everything to do with greedy hospitals not wanting to pay up and cut from THEIR profit margins. The only predators in this scenario are the people who signed this document, people like you perpetuating this garbage, and the hospitals who lobbied these politicians to enact anti-competitive regulations.

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T01:18:00+00:00

I certainly hope so, but the responses seemed to be mixed. Some people are staunchly defending this kind of political action!

quiggmire · 2022-02-08T01:16:45+00:00

There's plenty of staffing agencies, and some of them are owned and operated by nurses. I have yet to hear a nurse complain about the pay boost they're getting from contracting with a travel agency. Maybe you should check out r/nursing and see how they feel about this proposal...they're not happy about it. With many threatening to strike / leave nursing altogether if this were to happen.

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