Sen. Bernie Sanders
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Another guy, I think, is making $16 million.
They're bringing in all these traveling nurses, spending hundreds of millions of dollars, rather than sitting down and negotiating a decent contract with these dedicated nurses.
There they are.
You got them up there, huh?
What they're asking for, what they call safe patient, nurse-patient ratios.
That means...
If you're a nurse on duty and you have too many patients to take care of, you can't do your job.
A patient calls out, needs your help, you can't get there.
So they want more staffing to be able to provide the quality care that patients deserve.
That's pretty crazy.
And the other thing they're worried about, and I hope we can discuss this a little bit, is AI and robotics.
They've raised that issue as well.
Have they really?
And there was a Dr. Oz, who's head of CMS in Washington right now, was talking the other day.
Let me get it straight.
I think it was Alabama, rural Alabama, where they're weak on the number of obstetricians that they have.
And he was proudly talking about how they have robots now who are providing examinations for pregnant women.
And who's controlling those robots?
Well, but the point is, if you're a patient, do you really want a robot examining you?