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21 states raising Min Wage. - Expect more "layoffs/firings."

Posted: Jan 03, 2015

Hope your not in one. If your are, start looking for a new job.

Companies are not going to like it, but not to worry - they will put their heads

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together and figure out yet another way to avoid this....

Not in the red state where I live - they are trying to find

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ways to get 12 y/o's to work.

Raise the min wage, watch what happens - sm

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Technology is a one time fee, they will replace people with machines as much as possible. We will be replaced, no matter how bad ASR is, at some point it will be cost effective to do it yourself. Every one of my doctors has a nurse that comes in and takes your history, first visit they go over your entire file and fix the mistakes. Then the doc comes in and as you talk types, which I HATE it is terrible patient care in my opinion. But thats what Obamacare has done, Gvt run healthcare at its best.

Raise - Working poor

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Doctors typing as you talk during your office visit has been going on since way before Obamacare. It is due to the software program the health care organization has implemented in order to save the corporation money. Again, not due to government run health care, but management decision to cut costs.

Ive only noticed it here in the past 3 years - sm

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and with my medical problems, I spend a lot of time at the doctors office

Noticed - Working poor

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I have noticed this going on for the last 7-8 years as I go to the doctor a lot also through the Kaiser Healthcare system. They developed software where physicians can create their own reports (fill in the blank format) during your office visit, thus replacing MTs. It is a shame management does not care about high-quality medical care, their only concern is cutting costs here and there creating the illusion of a profit.

Government run healthcare has nothing to do with technology takeover. - nm

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Really? - when you lower wages

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For all concerned, right down to us, they pick up ways to save money..and axing us, is the first way..

lower wages - Yep

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That is MM management at its finest.

Other cutbacks due to Obamacare - clyde

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You'll also notice (if you haven't yet) that there are a ton of MDs retiring early, and the structure of healthcare has changed. Most of us will be seen by PAs, who are overseen by an MD. I have nothing against PAs. In fact, I love mine. It's just another example of the cutbacks and restructuring that are taking place and have escalated due directly to Obamacare.

PA or NP - Patient

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For the past 6 years whenever I have called to make an appointment with my MD, they always give me a PA or NP to see because I can't get in to see my MD anytime soon. This has been going on for years for me--nothing new here, not due to any cutbacks, just a lot of patients who need to see the doctor. I have read somewhere and it has also been on the news that there is a shortage of general practitioners.

probably because people like to sue for every tiny infraction - malpractice insurance is unaffordable

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Over the years a couple of hospitals around here stopped delivering babies at all because of this.

21 - working poor

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It is so sad that some employers do not value the American worker.

My state raised min wage in July - I am still here

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I would probably worry if I got MUP on a regular basis but as long as you stay above the minimum wage you are probably fine.

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