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The hit film about overworked nurses that's causing alarm across Europe

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128 points mykowebhn | 1 comments | 29 Jul 25 15:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.308s | source
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huijzer ◴[29 Jul 25 16:03 UTC] No.44725035[source]▶
Yes can confirm this is real. I know both German and Dutch nurses who say that the workload is incredibly high. One older nurse also said the pressure today is much higher than years ago.
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thmsths ◴[29 Jul 25 16:08 UTC] No.44725107[source]▶
I am not surprised. Healthcare costs have been rising faster than inflation for several years. It's a difficult sell to increase budgets, so we have to resort to these "invisible" cost cutting measures to try and stay afloat.
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ajmurmann ◴[29 Jul 25 16:21 UTC] No.44725270[source]▶
This will continue to happen as long as automation in health care is slower than in other sectors. It's due to Baumol's Cost Disease: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

The same is true for other sectors that struggle with automation like education.

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ToucanLoucan ◴[29 Jul 25 16:37 UTC] No.44725479[source]▶
So after every industry is fully automated and everyone has lost all their jobs, do we all just hold hands and walk into the sea together or...?
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1. ajmurmann ◴[29 Jul 25 21:08 UTC] No.44728279[source]▶
Not sure why we would walk into the sea because work doesn't need doing anymore. If you are worried about needing work to put food on the table, I think our best solution is to start with a small UBI that we try to increase as automation increases.