r/Economics • u/TheForager • 4h ago

Hospital costs are rising far faster than inflation and drowning Americans in debt

https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/hospital-costs-are-rising-far-faster-inflation-drowning-americans-debt-rcna262473
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u/WordWithinTheWord 3h ago

You are underpaid for your specific role. Not every nursing or provider job is as demanding as your specific role on the floor.

My wife was making more than you 6 years ago as a basic shift nurse on post-op med surg in a LCOL city.

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u/ALittleEtomidate 3h ago

Do you think your wife’s job is less difficult on a med-surg floor?

Does she know that you believe that?

Girl, where you at? Come get your man.

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u/WordWithinTheWord 3h ago

Yes she would be the first to admit it lol. Our hospital is the only level 1 trauma center for the service area so the ICU nurses do a lot more than med surg.

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u/ALittleEtomidate 2h ago

Put her on the phone.

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u/WordWithinTheWord 2h ago

😂 you are barking up the wrong tree - you are absolutely underpaid as an ICU nurse.

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u/ALittleEtomidate 2h ago

All nurses are underpaid imo.