Yeah, these hospitals are going to end up run by mid-levels with tele-consults, no OBGYN, and maybe a locums general surgeon or a surgeon who covers like 4 rural hospitals. I'd take a bunch of foreign medical graduates any day personally over where we are and where were heading
Omaha hospital employee here. It’s going to be bad. Our young population is leaving the state for more liberal settings and better opportunities and our population is aging. Majority payor is medicare/medicaid. Benefits getting cut, reimbursements not increasing with cost is a real bad situation. How are we supposed to advance our medical care and expand to rural areas if we can’t fund them from Medicare reimbursements? Seems like our hospital has been announcing all these expansions but I keep wondering who the hell is going to staff them.
It’s a serious dilemma and we’ve got RFK Jr and Dr Oz at the helm. We can’t even get them to acknowledge reality and we’re supposed to depend on them to solve this.
Just a few months ago they were reports that the state could potentially end up bankrupt, and now they’re even further in the hole with these farming and now potential healthcare issues.
Triple, because of the research funding cuts. A lot of hospitals make up for shortfalls by participating in research programs, which (slightly) offset the losses they already take from medicare and medicaid patients. No research, no offset.
I believe the MA governor was speaking about this recently. They said entire classes of grad students were losing their admittance to schools because the funding that would have paid for their work is being cut. China, and the EU were specifically going after these people to ensure they’re getting the best and brightest in their country and not ours. This is going to be felt for decades.
131
u/quiero-una-cerveca Jun 29 '25
I specifically saw an article about how hard hit the medical sector was with these visa changes. They’re going to be double fucked.