MN GOP: Rep. Drazkowski wants to replace health care workers with monitors

[mascarax]

Fresh off his idea to cut down walnut trees in state parks and bills to end pay equity for women, Rep. Steve Drazkowski (28B, Mazeppa) offers a new GOP Crazy Idea:

Replace health care workers (aides and nurses) with monitors (you know, like baby monitors)! More and video (yes, video with AFSCME workers) at either of the links:

http://www.bluestemprairie.com/bluestemprairie/2011/04/annals-of-budget-numbskullery-drazkowski-touts-replacing-health-care-workers-with-monitors.html

...this will only result in an estimated loss of 20,000 jobs, but hey. Not like we need 'em here in Minnesota!

More Draz at:

http://www.mnprogressiveproject.com/diary/8951/drazkowski-lay-off-the-health-aides-we-can-use-baby-monitors

If you're in the Rochester area on Friday, stop by the Not Tax Day Tea Party Rally where Draz will be a guest speaker. No doubt he'll have some other bat crazy bill to float.

It never stops with these people. Like he has any idea about what health care workers do...like patients just sleep all night!

At least the walnut trees are safe (for now...apparently, he said he'd get back to that one).

[Brickbat]

1. Clearly, this is his year to throw shit at the wall to see what sticks. He also sponsored the right

to scab bill.

[kickysnana]

2. I am sure someone will educate him as to what nurses and aids do.

How anyone can be this ignorant and arrogant and make it into the Legislature goes to show how far we have fallen.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. "ignorant and arrogant" seem to be major requirements for office-holders these days

Even here in MN.

My question: How did my neighbors become so stupid, short-sighted, greedy, and mean that they want such idiots in the legislature?

Or just: How the does MN keep electing that thing from the 6th CD?

[glinda]

4. I am not sure we "actually elected" these nuts. Seriously. Maybe they introduce these

things to waste time and money. They are not serious or even sane ideas so they might be intended to waste time and stall real discussion and progress since all they care about is franking, mining, killing wolves, etc....

[dflprincess]

5. A year or so ago one of my coworkers had to rush back to England because his elderly

mother had had an accident and was not expected to live (long story short, she did live).

He came back full of nothing but praise for the National Health Service. The only thing he didn't like at first was that his mother had been in a 4 (maybe 6) person ward - though he saw some advantages to it. One of the things he liked and mentioned was that there was an aide assigned to the ward who stayed in the room all night. The reason for that was the women in the room were all elderly and there was concern that when one of them woke up in the middle of the night they might be confused and need reassurance and even more concern that if someone tried to get out of bed by herself, she might get hurt in a fall.

This is the kind of care people with socialized medicine must put up with. But here, where we have the absolutely best health care in the whole wide world :sarcasm:, here we have Republicans telling us that all we need is a monitor. Perhaps pillows can be placed on the floor around the bed to cushion any falls.

[Odin2005]

6. This guy is off his rocker.

[spedtr90]

7. Well, jobless public employees looking for work...

...fits the Republican master plan:

"Decreasing the number and compensation of government workers: A smaller government workforce increases the available supply of educated, skilled workers for private firms, thus lowering labor costs."

March 28, 2011
Joint Economic Committee
Republicans


It's not about the budget.