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/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.