http://iowaindependent.com/5319/king-opposes-lifting-immigration-cap-for-nurses Iowa politics, news, and commentary Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:46:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://iowaindependent.com/5319/king-opposes-lifting-immigration-cap-for-nurses/comment-page-1#comment-12815 daddysteve Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:16:25 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=5319#comment-12815 With the HUGE amount of money that disappears into the health care industry every year, how is there a shortage of suitable wages to attract the employees to fill these basic "in the trenches" jobs. Can't be the utility bills.Maybe top heavy with too much "administration" and high cost specialty equipment and the specialists to go with them. I saw a statistic a while back that said Canada had 70 % general practitioners(family doctors) and 30% specialists. In the U.S. it was the opposite, 70% specialists and 30% family doctors. I always believed this ( and the government subsidies to support it ) was the underlying cause of the steadily rising costs for decades. The incredible costs never reported in the Consumer Price Index. CPI With the HUGE amount of money that disappears into the health care industry every year, how is there a shortage of suitable wages to attract the employees to fill these basic “in the trenches” jobs. Can't be the utility bills.Maybe top heavy with too much “administration” and high cost specialty equipment and the specialists to go with them. I saw a statistic a while back that said Canada had 70 % general practitioners(family doctors) and 30% specialists. In the U.S. it was the opposite, 70% specialists and 30% family doctors. I always believed this ( and the government subsidies to support it ) was the underlying cause of the steadily rising costs for decades. The incredible costs never reported in the Consumer Price Index. CPI

]]> http://iowaindependent.com/5319/king-opposes-lifting-immigration-cap-for-nurses/comment-page-1#comment-12812 cocinero Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:47:58 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=5319#comment-12812 As usual, Steve King has no solution to the problem, just knee-jerk opposition to anything involving immigration, Maybe, when I'm in the hospital or nursing home, I can call Steve, and he'll come and take care of me. As usual, Steve King has no solution to the problem, just knee-jerk opposition to anything involving immigration, Maybe, when I'm in the hospital or nursing home, I can call Steve, and he'll come and take care of me.

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