NURSES VS. HOSPITALS IN MINNESOTA

摘要

A Major Goal Ofhealth-care reform is affordable treatment. To achieve it, however, the Obama administration may temporarily upset another aim: effective care. The trouble extends from the president's pledge to make the new reforms "deficit-neutral." That will require billions of dollars in funding cuts, primarily at hospitals, which stand to lose $155 billion inMedicare and Medicaid cash during the next few years. The loss should be offset by a boom in insured patients after 2014; for now it's deepening a clash between hospitals and nurses.