My sister got the flu "off season". She was just laid off as a nurse, and she has no unemployment insurance or sick pay. She hasn't been to the hospital but has fought it through herself without help from Tamiflu. May I add that you would have a hard time finding a more committed nurse than her, and it is a shame that the hospital hasn't kept her.
Instead of spending money on qualified personnel, the government has opted for wasting money on a harmful vaccine which will only feed the stuffed pockets of the Pharmaceutical companies. According to this news article the district of Västerbotten (where my sister worked) will be getting 30 million kronor from the state to pay for vaccinations against the swine flu.
If this money had instead been diverted towards paying for nurses, it could have paid 100 nurses making 25 000 kronor per month for a year, or 10 nurses making 25 000 for 10 years. Simple facts that nobody cares to think about. And add to this that most laid off nurses will be paid 80% of their salary for a year for not working, and after that will be on social welfare from the state, the money doesn't really seem to be well spent. Why spend money on having qualified people on welfare instead of paying them to work?
They fire teachers and nurses while spending billions on useless vaccines...and they won't even have enough nurses to give the vaccines. Less nurses equals more deaths and less teachers equals more problem kids...maybe they should worry more about that than about swine flu. My sister survived it with no vaccine or visit to the doctor...not even any sick pay or Tamiflu.
In Economics, there is something called cost-benefit analysis. Most people don't realize that every time the government spends money on one health care issue, less money is spent somewhere else. So when the government spends billions on swine flu others may die because resources have been diverted from that particular medical field. I would like to see an Economist do an analysis of the true costs of the vaccination program. I am sure that the costs outweigh the benefits in this case.
This is just a thought...maybe someone should care to look into it.
Instead of spending money on qualified personnel, the government has opted for wasting money on a harmful vaccine which will only feed the stuffed pockets of the Pharmaceutical companies. According to this news article the district of Västerbotten (where my sister worked) will be getting 30 million kronor from the state to pay for vaccinations against the swine flu.
If this money had instead been diverted towards paying for nurses, it could have paid 100 nurses making 25 000 kronor per month for a year, or 10 nurses making 25 000 for 10 years. Simple facts that nobody cares to think about. And add to this that most laid off nurses will be paid 80% of their salary for a year for not working, and after that will be on social welfare from the state, the money doesn't really seem to be well spent. Why spend money on having qualified people on welfare instead of paying them to work?
They fire teachers and nurses while spending billions on useless vaccines...and they won't even have enough nurses to give the vaccines. Less nurses equals more deaths and less teachers equals more problem kids...maybe they should worry more about that than about swine flu. My sister survived it with no vaccine or visit to the doctor...not even any sick pay or Tamiflu.
In Economics, there is something called cost-benefit analysis. Most people don't realize that every time the government spends money on one health care issue, less money is spent somewhere else. So when the government spends billions on swine flu others may die because resources have been diverted from that particular medical field. I would like to see an Economist do an analysis of the true costs of the vaccination program. I am sure that the costs outweigh the benefits in this case.
This is just a thought...maybe someone should care to look into it.
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