#Petition: Cap Healthcare CEO Salaries

Cap Healthcare CEO Salaries

Jessica Hren started this petition to President of the United States, U​.​S. Senate, and it now has 16,098 signatures

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Nonprofit CEO Salaries The healthcare system in the United States has been crumbling for decades, however COVID-19 appears to have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.  The cost of healthcare has been a hot topic throughout the years, with almost 50% of Americans reporting healthcare related debt (Forbes). Recently hospital systems and local legislators have proposed capping the pay of agency workers such as travel nurses to help reduce the cost of healthcare (Foundation for Economic Equality).  This solution ignores the reason that ALL practitioners are leaving the bedside: Poor staffing, poor pay, rampant abuse by patients and hospital systems, and the crippling strain of burn out caused by these issues. This will further feed the national staffing shortage facing the healthcare field by forcing practitioners into a corner, where their only options are to leave the bedside or tolerate abhorrent working conditions (American Medical Association ). Instead of capping the pay of those at the bedside, I propose a different solution: Cap those administrators who profit from our labor. Hospital CEO’s are making upwards of 10 million dollar salaries in nonprofit facilities which pay no taxes (Forbes). The for profit facilities are even worse. Cutting these costs will allow for greater pay increases and bonuses for our healthcare workers, as well as provide much needed upgrades to facilities and equipment for patients  Please join me in this endeavor by signing this petition, and contacting your local legislators and telling them that    1.) The solution is not to cap agency pay. This is a step towards capping the pay of staff nurses, physicians, physicians’ associates, nurse practitioners, respiratory therapists, and all those working hard for your loved ones. Furthermore, it will only push more practitioners from the bedside. and  2.) We MUST cap hospital CEO salaries in order to provide much needed funds to care for those, who care for you.

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