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Re:How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life by cratermoon on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:09PM (#16292660)
Not the nurses. Definitely not the nurses.
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Re:How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life by dv_dt on Friday February 02, 2018 @02:39PM (#16293552)
It's odd the you get a bunch of basically non-sequitor responses to this. Nurse wages are rising at slower than the rate of the overall rise of medical costs. Based on that I'd tend to agree with your statement.

edit: forgot a "slower than"

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Re:How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life by com2kid on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:28PM (#16292862)
Nurses in the Seattle Metro area make 6 figures. It is a master program, but I know more than one person who has decided to change careers into nursing.

That said, a masters in nursing isn't easy, a good nurse earns their pay.

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Re:How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life by maxerickson on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:18PM (#16292764)
https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes292061.htm

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291141.htm

The majority of nurses are RNs and make well above median wages. LPNs still make better than average money.

They aren't getting incredibly wealthy, sure, but they aren't working for peanuts either.

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Re:How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life by cratermoon on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:29PM (#16292874)
Why is a nurse's services worth less than a computer programmer's?
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Re:How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life by maxerickson on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:32PM (#16292899)
In the US, literally because there are not people offering them larger salaries.

It's anyway probably not a great argument if you are trying to make people making 5-10x the median wage some kind of baseline.

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Re:How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life by Domenic_S on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:34PM (#16292920)
My friend (programmer)'s wife (nurse) outearned him by a wide margin in the Bay Area. She had a 2-3 year head start on him, career-wise.
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Re:How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life by adamlett on Friday February 02, 2018 @04:18PM (#16294260)
Don't confuse cost with value.
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Re:How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life by maxxxxx on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:18PM (#16292769)
At least in California they make very good money.
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