Reply #21: Nurses are being brought into the US

[rainbow4321]

for the hospitals to use as cheap labor.
One of the recent bills passed had a blurb in there that allowed 10's of thousands of nurses to be allowed in..it was sandwiched in a defense/war funding bill. Sounds wonderful til you realize it is equiv to outsourcing high tech jobs--just being done in reverse.
US nurses make $10-$15 more than the imported nurses, so the hospitals turn to the cheap help. There is one Asian nurse who was brought in to the US by my hospital, took a job for $10 less per hr than the American nurses but was thrilled that the hospital bought her bed linen and towels...plus her husband was getting to be a stay at home dad.
Anyone ask Frist lately how many cheap labor nurses his family's company has imported? Plus you have groups/lobbyists like the AHA who represent hospitals wanting to save $$ even though it is nurses who keep their facilities up and running.