Current Events: Protesting Hospitals

Apparently today, nurses, National Union of Health care Workers, sympathy workers, and patients are protesting local hospitals around the bay area such as Kaiser and even Alta bay campus, due to their disagreement on staffing cuts, long wait times, and issues surrounding quality of patient care. Some are also upset that Kaiser is trying to cut NUHW pension benefits on the heels of lowering the early retirement age for its doctors.  There are over one hundred protesters at each location but at the same time, there are private security workers dressed in uniforms and suits monitoring the parking lot that separates all of the protesters from the medical facility. In my personal opinion, I do feel that line waits in the hospitals are too long for simple tasks such as making appointments or picking up prescriptions.  As far as health issues, citizens have a rite to get upset if they don’t feel like they are getting the proper care they need especially if they have all there information and resources together that ensures them that they are supposed to receive that care. Personally I am not sure if the staff cuts are going to affect me because I think that Kaiser should know if they need all the workers they have and if they don’t need them, then they should have a right to let them go. Keeping unneeded workers is a waste of money in which that money could go toward something more useful in these hospitals. Hopefully the important issues are looked at and put into consideration and something good comes from this experience.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/bay-area-news/ci_18952700