Opinion: Medicare can help fix the nurse shortage in hospitals

There’s no polite way to say this: The U.S. health care system failed the American people during the Covid-19 pandemic. Unless we admit to the failures — like not having enough nurses in hospitals — we are bound to repeat them.
The U.S. spends considerably more on health care per capita than any other country in the world, with a total bill exceeding $4 trillion in 2020. U.S hospitals alone spent close to $1.3 trillion in 2020 and still failed to employ enough nurses — even before the pandemic — to provide safe and effective care. Read the rest…