“I think the hospital will need more nurses than we currently have,” says Dr. Mark Barlow, anesthesiologist at NorthShore University HealthSystem in Chicago.
Dr. Barlow says that the hospital is looking to hire about 1,600 more nurses. That equates to about a 13 percent increase for the hospital.
The big question is how they’re going to pay for it. In the short-term, the hospital will need to raise salaries and cut benefits. And it’s not yet clear where the money’s going to come from, or how much it’s going to cost.
That’s where it’s going to get interesting. In the long-view, the hospital is going to have to raise its nurse salary by some $3 million a year to bring it into the top tier of hospitals. While nurses are the lowest paid on the health care ladder, they’re the highest paid in the general economy.
And while the hospital is raising its salary, the state legislature is also increasing its taxes (which is why the hospital will need to raise it) and cutting the benefits that nurses receive.
The hospital has a lot of people who work at it and as a result gets a lot of money from the state. As a result, they have to raise their costs so that they can be competitive with the rest of the hospitals. The state is making it very rich and therefor is making it even more rich.
As a result, the state legislature is increasing taxes. One of the bills you can sponsor is the hospital’s salary. The bill itself is about $100,000,000 more than the hospital actually makes off of this bill. The hospital makes $8.7 million a year, but the state is increasing the taxes by 50%. In other words, it’s $100,000,000 more that the hospital makes than it has to pay the state every year.
This bill is essentially an attempt to raise the tax rate on hospitals, not because the hospitals are making more money, but because they’re making more money because they don’t have enough hospitals to take care of all the new patients.
This is a bad idea. The hospital has a very good incentive to keep making money because of the hospital tax increase, whereas the state is getting none of the hospital tax revenue that it uses to pay for health care. The state gets more money from the patients than the hospital does, but the hospital gets less money than it needs to pay the state. So the state is being forced to pay more for health care than the hospital needs to pay for health care.
The problem is that hospitals are basically just corporate welfare for the state. They are a huge source of revenue for the state, but the state is paying them too much. The state is not getting any of the hospital tax revenue that it needs to pay for health care, but it’s getting the most of it. So the state is being forced to pay more for health care than they need to for health care.
