politics
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
view the rest of the comments
This is exactly what our mess of a health care system needs ... fewer nurses. This is exactly what our uneducated voter population needs ... fewer educators. The downward spiral never ends.
As the boomers reach EOL... fewer nurses.
Actually it's a bigger problem than that. Birthrates are declining and have been below replacement rate for some time. Without another source of population (such as immigration) in the long term there will simply be more and more old people and fewer and fewer working age people to care for them.
Everyone who doesn't die young will get old, and as your body starts breaking down from age you're going to need help with things, and once the amount of help required exceeds being able to realistically live independently you're looking at a nursing home. With fewer healthcare professionals these nursing homes will become more neglectful and those employees who are present will be less caring due to sheer burnout. This is a problem which will affect everyone.
Disability is the only class of people that anyone can join. Disability rights are everyone's rights because anyone can become disabled!
I work maintenance at a retirement home/long term care facility and the outlook is fucking grim folks. I'm relieved that my parents will probably be able to afford to age in place, because I couldn't stand them living someplace like where I work. It is pretty expensive on the independent side ($6k+/month), and starting to become understaffed on the medical side, with little hope of attracting new talent to our rural, high COL location. There's a $3k signing bonus, great, that'll help with the $100k student loans from nursing school that exposes them to way better offers in more accessible places to live. I do my best to make life better for our residents, but even my team is 2 people short of full and corporate won't list a single new position. Here comes winter and heat runs failing because they haven't been serviced in 20 years, snow storms we'll have to plow with one less team member than last year, and the fucking flu/COVID. If you think COVID is over go ask the staff at a nursing home.
Sorry, rant over.
So I'm currently working my grandmother through this process and we stumbled upon the most cost effective option for independent living which is to hire a care person to come by 10 hours a week (cost my grandmother about $400/week for 10 hours per week). They're there to help with cooking and cleaning which are most of what an independent living facility would provide. Throw an emergency pendant (something like $30-50 per month) and you have all of the of features of a $6k/mo independent living facility for less than $2k/month over their current housing costs
I'm not sure what to expect when my parents reach that age. At this point I'm more worried that they won't be able to retire given their horrendous financial discipline. My in-laws seem on track to die young given the sheer quantity of alcohol they consume, the frequency with which they drink and drive, and their predisposition to riding motorcycles to go bar hopping. My grandmother however needs to be moved into a memory care facility ASAP because she is at the point that she really shouldn't be living independently anymore