'My life is hell right now': Frontline doctors are having their pay cut as much as 25%

[OhioChick]

'My life is hell right now': Frontline doctors are having their pay cut as much as 25% as hospitals lose patients and revenues amid the focus on infectious coronavirus victims

Frontline doctors are having their pay cut while facing infectious coronavirus patients and as they become increasingly anxious about their exposure to the infection due to a shortage of protective gear.

Doctors say they have seen their pay slashed by as much as 25 per cent since the outbreak began having an economic impact on hospitals, which have seen revenues drop.

Fewer traumas resulting from stay-at-home orders, a drop in the scheduling of elective surgeries and deferrals of non-urgent treatments and visits have all affected the bottom line at medical facilities across the U.S.

Physicians at the same time are increasingly anxious about their exposure to the virus due to shortages of Protective Personal Equipment, or PPE, and other supplies.

'Honestly, my life is hell right now,' an emergency medicine doctor in Los Angeles tells Fox News after she recently learned her pay will be cut by at least 25 per cent.

The doctor, whose name was not given, treats patients afflicted with the deadly flu-like virus also known as COVID-19, at three California hospitals.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8215709/Frontline-doctors-pay-cut-anxieties-run-high-treat-COVID-19-patients.html

[uponit7771]

1. " affected the bottom line at medical facilities across the U.S" WTF ?!

[dalton99a]

2. Yep, hospitals have been furloughing staff because of the decrease in business volume

Private practice groups are struggling as well, since all non-emergent procedures are cancelled

[Initech]

3. That is some serious bullshit.

Doctors, techs, and nurses are risking their lives to treat this god forsaken virus, yet their bosses see them as expendable.This is a travesty within a travesty, and shows how broken and corrupt our healthcare system is.

[klook]

4. Further debasing ourselves before Mammon,

while the rest of the world gapes in astonishment at American depravity.

[zackymilly]

5. My daughter's a hospital lab technician and she's had to take a 10% pay cut so far.

Either that, or be laid off. She works for a major hospital and most of their money comes from elective surgeries.

[lunasun]

6. Majority of Americans still support privatized healthcare I think . How do people not equate that

with needing to make a profit? Lost revenue in any business could result in actions like that

Every hospital has its own model for how it brings in cash if it wants to stay open

Hey I’m not saying I support any of what is being done but I do understand what system is in place right now

[Recursion]

7. France had to set up a special revenue stream for the hospitals here

Unless you have a full-on NHS like the UK you're going to have this problem; even Canada's hospitals may need some help (though their infection numbers are much lower so they haven't had to scramble like ours have).

[OhioChick]

8. But Hospitals Benefitted from the $2 trillion stimulus package

"The hospital industry is getting what it asked for — $100 billion in rescue funds."

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/25/whats-in-stimulus-package-coronavirus-149282

[Duppers]

9. Hospitals are being left out of the massive

$2 trillion emergency spending bill?

This is nuts! Of all the "businesses" needing funding now, our health care should rank at the top. These workers are lifting the heaviest load and should, if anything, have their compensation increased. In military terms, they are doing "combat duty."

[OhioChick]

10. Oh, No They're Not

See Post #8.

[Duppers]

11. Big Whoops!

[Duppers]

12. K & R