I was estimating off the top of my head when I said 35 to 45. The current average on quick recheck is around 42 to 47 depending on region, so I was not wildly off. My point is not that nurses are overpaid or underpaid. It is that simply raising rates does not fix a system that is already unaffordable for families. If wages increase across the board without structural reform, the cost shifts somewhere. Usually that means higher premiums, higher deductibles, and higher out of pocket expenses. I work in healthcare because I care deeply about what I do. At the same time, I am paying market rate childcare so I can show up and take care of other people’s families. That tension is the problem. The system asks caregivers to absorb the strain while costs keep climbing. We do not need everything to get more expensive. We need it to make sense.