Banning Non-compete Clauses

Good for you, bad for hospitals

[DGlaucomflecken]

Jimothy works for health insurance, Himothy works for the hospital CEO, Bimothy works in publishing. They are all brothers.

[macmedic]

UPDATE:
Himothy has been reprimanded for wrong-think, denounced in an “all employees” email, flogged, and ordered to repaint the lines in the parking garage—moving them 6 inches closer together to produce a net gain of 11 spaces—thus producing more revenue.

[Nerdyknitter]

I just had to sign one of these. I did however make them take out the section on "wages are confidential and cannot be discussed with other employees" by pointing out that it was in direct violation of the National Labor Relations Act. They claimed it was an "old form". The practice started in the early 2000s. The NLRA was passed in 1935.

[abdoalghanai]

"Finding solutions to problems that don't exist while ignoring actual problems that really do exist"
Pure gold

[hiltonian_]

I want the FTC to make CEOs weep blood.

[Lavarpsu]

Non-competes also harm patients/clients. I'm a therapist changing practices soon - if my current job had required a non-compete, that would have prevented clients from transferring with me. Which means those clients have to get on waiting lists, interrupt their therapy for months, and start all over again with someone new, who may or may not be a good fit.

[bluedevil]

I feel this very deeply. Working as a physician with a non compete in a city with two major health care systems this cuts to the bone. Let’s go FTC!!!

[KnightSlasher]

This shows the dark reality of our system and shows how greedy the Healthcare system is in the United States

[llAlukall]

I'm a psychiatrist in Germany and I enjoy your videos about what life in a hospital or as a med student is like. They are so relatable. But every now and then there's a video like this one to remind me that even though we, too, have our struggles with insurance providers, bureaucrats and similar stuff, your nation's system appears at least in parts to be straight-up evil, hostile towards both patients and healthcare workers. Healthcare is a basic need of all citizens, all people, and it is one of the areas where the US stopped being a good example to the world a long time ago. Dear colleague, I thank you for the many laughs, and I hope you live to see change for the better in the way your country treats the ill and those who take care of them.

[beckyt]

"It's important that they feel trapped"
As a nurse I'm dying 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[randomname]

Never knew Hospital Admin Code of Ethics included anything other than just “Screw them as hard as I can while making as much money as I can”.

[ryanjones]

This is hilarious and also true! One of my 1st jobs in the field they offered me well below the average salary from someone of my experience, Education, and training. I had another interview the next day that offered me the salary I asked for (average at the time) and a sign on bonus. Health care systems really try to screw their workers to keep them in their position while underpaying them and the only way to improve is to leave the job and sometimes that company as a whole. It is really a shame.

[andrewjanssen]

This reminds me of the kerfuffle that happened in the Fox Cities in Wisconsin when Allegiant head-hunted ThedaCare’s entire cardiac cath lab radiology team. ThedaCare apparently didn’t have the nurses and techs bound by non-competes AND they refused to match Allegiant’s offers on the grounds of “if we give you raises, we have to give everyone else raises and we can’t afford that.” Then when the cath lab jumped ship, ThedaCare tried to sue to stop them on the grounds that not having a functioning cath lab would compromise patient care during the pandemic. Allegiant’s response was basically “your failure to prepare is not my emergency, ” and the judge agreed.

[elizabethpages]

Hospitals paying people what they're worth?! *GASP* How dare you give them hope of enough money so that they don't have to get a second job and possibly go home to their families 🙄🙄

[bigidea]

Me *chuckling* as the child of a father who has been a contact/locum tenens Emergency Dr. for decades. Some hospitals have different management for the ER and the management always turns over every 1 to few years because of mergers or some group comes along promising the Hospital CEO "savings". But of course because of non-competes they have to basically let go of all the contract ER docs. And usually the contract prohibits getting hired at the sister hospitals nearby. My dad chooses to move himself around (driving & flying often to other states for days/weeks at a time) so that we (his family) didn't have to move around. He's worked in hospitals across at least 5 states.

[videt]

I had one MH private practice owner try to get me to sign a contract whose NC clause stipulated that I couldn't work in my profession anywhere within in a 100 mile radius of her office for TWO YEARS AFTER LEAVING. The world needs this rule, urgently.

[cardiacdrummer]

This one really hits home. People have called it the “Cath Lab Hustle” for a reason: every two years someone transfers because of better pay/hours. If hospitals would just pay core cast even $1 more/hour there would be more retention. Also hard to stay motivated when, as a former core staff, new grads with zero experience were being paid the same hourly rate as me at a competing facility even though I was maxed out at the top of the ladder.

[soumaya]

Every video you make about US healthcare system fills me with joy and gratitude to be European. I'm so sorry for you guys though

[dclark]

I always liked the response of a company looking to hire my father away from his decades long company when he mentioned the non-compete clause....

"We have lawyers too."

Most of those clauses aren't enforceable.

[dannibble]

The Doc really came out swinging on that first answer. The nurses union at work is negotiating contracts and I think I'm gonna share this with them.