How Can America Do Better During Healthcare Disasters? | The Problem With Jon Stewart Podcast

America has the world's best healthcare IF YOU ARE RICH (the rest of you sink or swim)

Probably hear what I did working 70 hours a week. Shut up and do ur job as manager took a vacation

I work in healthcare. I have a niece who works as a nurse during the pandemic who worked in Florida, but moved away due to the antivaxx and anti-health worker sentiment. We have huge student loans (we get demonized for getting that forgiven), we get demonized for providing reproductive healthcare for women seeking it, and we get demonized for suggesting to wear masks and get a vaccine during a pandemic yet we have to provide services for the same idiots who catch it. We have more people leaving and less people entering the fields simply because it is not worth the work or effort or heartache. You want more people to work in healthcare then you must provide incentives to work in it (aka more money doesn't solve everything but it helps)! It is more lucrative to become a lawyer than it is to become a doctor, nurse, PA, pharmacist, respiratory therapist, etc.

Look at our neighbors of the north, Canada! Follow them and look to see how they do it.

As a nurse on a COVID floor, it’s like putting your hand out to help and someone slaps it away. Eventually, you stop offering your hand. I had patients who would call me a government conspirator, families who would yell at me over hour phone calls because I wasn’t in the patient’s room enough, management that gave us BIPAP patients without as much as a 15 minute training on the machine, and some quit because management wouldn’t approve a few days off when they had been working for months straight because we were ‘short staffed.’ There are days I want to go work at McDonalds.

'Oh my god! How do we do it?' Pfff! The Problem with John Stewart is that, deep down, he's a just shitlib. Fixing healthcare is gonna a few people making alot less money. That's all. No John, it's not Facebook's fault.

Wow… How is this the first time I heard that half of all deaths (In the U.S.) were people with disabilities? Who handles the statistics. Or decides what to release?

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that hiring five extra nurses isn't as sexy as getting that new shiny mri machine (or whatever is considered sexy in the medical field)
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6:05 People lost trust because the conservative media blasted nonstop misinformation, hypocrisy, and hate. There were definitely some changes in the advice given by the medical establishment over time, but if big media had decided to try to assuage fears and remind people that, yes, we're learning as we go to some degree, it wouldn't be like this. People lost trust because they were told they had been lied to, they were told the doctors were just greedy, they were told conservative media were the only trustworthy source for information, and they believed it. People lost trust and people died so that Fox, NewsMax, and OAN could make money off the fear, the mistrust, and the death.

I was vaccinated and still got COVID twice.

https://youtu.be/slsHszBBhZQ

It will always break my mind that unvaccinated people go to hospital when they need medical treatment… This is after trashing the same professionals that could be treating them. Once they realize they need help beyond Facebook posts they are the most entitled patients in the world. I thought you guys did your own research? Stay home a practice your own treatments.

How Can America Do Better During Healthcare Disasters? NEVER EVER TRUST THE GOVERNMENT AGAIN!

Was there a line of hospital workers that walked up to those protesters and told them that they were the reason they were not coming to work tomorrow? And that the lives that that worker would have helped save would not be helped because of the hateful Right.

Teachers should do the same. Go to these board meetings and let them know that their child will not have public teachers due to there hatred and bigotry, because thanks to republicans, jobs that help others are now just as likely to get you a prison sentence as a pay check if you say the wrong thing or help fix the wrong ailment.

I can't help but notice how Jon looks good in an oval office.

The only reason patients and employees are treated like crap is that our entire system is based on profit. Until that changes, everyone will earn the bare minimum, receive the bare minimum care, action plans will focus entirely on the most profitable rollout of the most profitable solutions, etc etc.. You ask this woman, "what's the most important thing to address first to triage our system," and she gives the most basic tunnel vision answer imaginable, about ensuring that healthcare workers earn more, seemingly oblivious to the route causes of such problems. You lobbed that question, and even gave her the answer within it, yet BLEH. We are all idiots.

Thank you for raising awareness of the Disability Community!

You should run for President

Short answer, yes

Not if people enforce their constitutional right to cough on me.

Hello, Big fan, Mr Stewart. Thank you for fighting for veterans, firefighters, and the American people. Thank you for simplifying the news by taking the time to go through the arguments for dumb dumbs like me.

I don’t understand “the problem” here. Is it a lack of empathy for the people just doing their jobs? That doesn’t seem healthcare specific. Also, why no pushback on any of here points or some kind of acknowledgment to the frustrations/limitations people (not healthcare workers) faced?

Even here in Canada during the Pandemic the Conservatives in Ontario for no reasonable explanation did nothing to help nurses and Hospitals while they kept saying they were listening to Health Experts. Then they lower the bar to be a Nurse to "Have more Nurses" when what we needed wasn't more untrained or barely trained people we needed more experienced nurses to be WILLING TO STAY.
All frontline workers need to be paid appropriately and not doing so results in only Catastrophe, I still can't fathom how there are people in the US blind to the reality in front of them but it brings me great Shame as a Canadian that those mindsets also exist here.

we are the virus

The attitude of the members of the burgeoning Administrative and Clerical segment of hospitals, constantly demanding more and more administrative and clerical work of the Doctors is terribly corrosive of Doctors pride and self respect. "Medical Doctors are Field Hands" was one retiring Anesthesiologist's summary. Meanwhile, an ever enlarging slice of the salary pie is eaten up by this ever expanding Administrative class, which on one level HAS to know that they are doing what David Graeber called the Bullshit job of Taskmaster, supervising people who need no supervision.