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RUSH: This is Diane, Metairie, Louisiana, great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Mr. Limbaugh. Thank you so much for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a nurse here. I don\u2019t work full time, but in the hospital that I work in, they\u2019re cutting back nurses\u2019 hours, and that\u2019s down to 36 — 40, 36 — and also heard in another hospital in the city that they laid off a lot of nurses. I\u2019ve been asking the managers what\u2019s the reason, and they said it\u2019s because the doctors aren\u2019t being reimbursed in terms of their Medicare reimburses. I have a question as to how… I suspect this has a lot to do with the Obamacare, but if you could explain to me and to others if that\u2019s the case, and if somebody else could call in I\u2019d like to know if this is going on also with the rest of the country because also they\u2019re not hiring new nurses. So nurses graduating from nursing school are not getting jobs.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, this is not just exclusive to nurses. There are a lot of people graduating not getting jobs, just because of the general state of the economy. But don\u2019t worry about it because Obama\u2019s out there ‘investing\u2019 in a new economy that will not have any of these bad things ever happen to it again. You just gotta be here 10 or 20 years for this to take hold and this reform to work and then everything is going to be fine.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you, are you represented by a union like the SEIU or anything?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. Thank goodness. I never wanted to be a part of a union because 40 years ago when I became a nurse I saw it coming down the road.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And, in fact, there is… I\u2019m not going to go into details, but I suspect it was a union — I mean some employees in an area hospital were probably union members because when I taught in nursing school a lot of these people were gone when nursing student showed up to the floor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The reason I asked the question is that in addition to the general economy it could well be that the Service Employees International Union is exerting pressure that nonunionized nurses don\u2019t get hired, nonunionized hospitals are going to get creamed and this kind of thing. Look, with these people involved, you never know what\u2019s possible. So you gotta throw that in the mix of things that might be the explanation.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That does make sense to push us to join a union. Oh, it would be a devastation. I\u2019ve been against this from the beginning, and I\u2019ve been outspoken about it at work, and there are a lot of people that agree with me but they\u2019re not as outspoken as I am because they\u2019re full time employees. But that does make a lot of sense to me about SEIU. I should probably start being outspoken about that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s a sad reality, but it\u2019s one that exists out there today. Any time a question of unionized employees or unionized shop comes up, or nonunionized in your case —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — you still have to examine what pressure is being brought to bear on management at these places.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We are a right-to-work state. We do have that. A long time ago that passed. So everybody has a right to work. In other words, you don\u2019t have to join a union —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — to get a job, thank goodness but it\u2019s pretty scary. It really is. I see, you know, what\u2019s going to happen is that the census is low. That\u2019s what they\u2019re saying. The census is low so they don\u2019t need the nurses as much, so that means the patients are going home a little more sick than usual.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you mean the census is low?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, in summertime usually there\u2019s a lot of surgeries because kids — people, you know, can have surgeries, like surgeries on vacation, that sort of thing. But that\u2019s what being told to me in terms of floor load, patient load: The census is low. That\u2019s what\u2019s being told. So my impression is if that\u2019s the case then these people are going home sicker and not getting treated as long as they should be, of course they give the excuse of decrease infection in the hospital.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s just a precursor of what\u2019s going to be happening everywhere once this Obamacare gets fully implemented.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. That\u2019s exactly right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What you\u2019re talking about is simply lack of funds, right? Not having the money. Patients can\u2019t pay. The hospitals can\u2019t afford to pay it and absorb it. There aren\u2019t enough paying customers. The doctors aren\u2019t being reimbursed, so what do you do? You ration care, you ration the nurses. Hello, Obamacare. It sounds like we\u2019ve got an advanced picture of it right here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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