The State of Montana has a health care worker shortage. States like New Hampshire are about to start shedding doctors and nurses who will get fired for refusing a vaccine they don’t want or need. Did I mention that it’s against the law in Montana to mandate vaccines?
It is against the law for anyone to mandate it.
A new Montana law that prohibits employers from requiring COVID-19 vaccinations has hospital leaders worried, as concerns over hospital staffing and the spread of the delta variant grows.
That’s from MTPR, Montana Public Radio, and the Karens there are very concerned, but the Liberty, Freedom folks are ecstatic. And so, I expect, are medical professionals who find themselves unemployed because they refuse to abandon their rights of conscience. To them, Montana has said, move here. We want you!
“Today I’m proud to announce a new innovative healthcare workforce recruitment program to address our long standing shortage and stabilize our healthcare system over the long term,” said Governor Gianforte. “The State of Montana will reimburse moving expenses for health care workers who move here to serve Montanans.”
Gianforte provided more incentives from the relocation program.
“After 12 months of continuous service at a health care facility, qualified providers who move to the state, and that would be nurses or doctors, can be reimbursed for up to $12,500 for their actual moving expenses plus 35 percent of the total reimbursement to cover taxes on that reimbursement.”
Now, reality check. Montana is Montana. And 12,500.00 is an excellent incentive for folks in health care to encourage people to move there. Hospitals, clinics, whoever can take advantage will likely sweeten the pot, and I expect Montana will have solved its worker shortage issue soon.
Here in New Hampshire, or perhaps where you live, things will not be getting better. Access will decline. Wait times will increase. We should expect the level of service to suffer, and costs will rise.
That’s a strange outcome from a governor (in our case) who, throughout the reaping of rights heralded by an endless string of emergency orders, says that Public health trumps everything.
If that were true, Governor Sununu, you’d be doing everything in your power to protect the human infrastructure that makes keeping that promise possible.
History will show that what you did during and after the so-called pandemic harmed more people than it helped and hindered health care. It’s a legacy you could change, but you seem too arrogant to me to even realize how much damage you’ve done.
I’ll be happy to report at some future date that I was wrong, but I’m not holding my breath.
