Michael Perelman writes: >> In California, the nurses may possibly be the most effective union in the >> state. >> They were instrumental in defeating Schwarzenegger's ballot initiatives. >> >> Here is the way the government repays them for their efforts. Of course, >> this attack >> on nurses opens the door for an assault on other unions who do not have the >> power of >> nurses, who are presently in short supply.
In my capacity as a bankruptcty lawyer, I have been involved in the huge restructuring of hospitals that has taken place over the past couple of years in Southern California. Multiple hospitals and emergency rooms no longer exist. While losing money on medicare and uninsured patients and legislated earthquake retrofitting are the most important factors in bankrupting California hospitals that aren't subsidized by the Catholic Church or other charitable endowment, legislation obtained by the unions mandating nursing coverage ratios has and will push a marginal hospital over the edge. What is the evidence that nurses are in short supply? That more nurses are needed after the nurses passed legislation requiring the employment of more nurses? Another government created shortage. What a joke. David Shemano
