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Explain It to Me

Does the US need a National Guard of nurses?

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Education, Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.47.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind are joined by Vox senior correspondent Dylan Scott (@dylanlscott) to discuss the shortage of nurses in the American health care workforce. The nursing shortage goes back many years, and not only did the pandemic exacerbate the problem, it also put it under a microscope. The US needs more nurses, but what can be done? References: America needs more doctors and nurses to survive the next pandemic The way the United States pays for nurses is broken Hosts: Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt), senior correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (@dlind), Weeds co-host, Vox Credits: Sofi LaLonde, producer and engineer Libby Nelson, editorial adviser Amber Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts Sign up for The Weeds newsletter each Friday: vox.com/weedsletter Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a donation to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I have to say when Dylan Scott mentions having twins and Dylan Matthews is like,

0:04.4

I would like to enlist you in something.

0:05.8

I figure it's going to be a twin study.

0:07.6

Sure.

0:09.6

No, I'm, that's an IRB still.

0:14.6

We're taking copious notes.

0:16.2

Don't worry.

0:31.4

Hello and welcome to another episode of the weeds.

0:33.8

I'm your host Dylan Matthews and today I'm joined by our regular co-host,

0:37.3

Darah Lind.

0:38.1

Hello.

0:39.1

And Dylan Scott, a senior correspondent at Fox covering healthcare and argue

0:43.3

we the best Fox senior correspondent named Dylan.

0:45.6

It's a vicious debate in the newsroom.

0:49.2

Many people are saying.

0:52.6

So today we're going to be talking about a longstanding issue in American

0:56.5

healthcare and one whose sort of costs and burns have become increasingly

1:00.7

pronounced as the pandemic rages on, which is the shortage of healthcare workers.

1:05.7

You've probably been hearing about the nursing shortage for many years.

1:09.0

I remember hearing about that maybe in the mid-Aught.

1:12.0

So that's been going on a long, long time.

1:14.7

But the US also has various policies that artificially limit how many doctors

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