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Nurses at Mount Sinai West in New York City are protesting unsafe working conditions, citing chronic understaffing and overwhelming patient loads that prevent them from delivering adequate care. (Photo by: Deb Cohn-Orbach/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The largest nurses strike in New York City history reached its seventh day on Sunday with no clear end in sight. And even if this strike at some point gets resolved, it should be yet another striking reminder that the U.S. healthcare system is like the title of that 2018 song from lovelytheband: “Broken.” A broken healthcare system, in turn, is the opposite of a lovely thing for patients and the rest of society. NYC Nurses Strike Began On Monday The NYC nurses strike struck on January 12, when around 15,000 nurses essentially said “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)” about their current pay and working conditions and walked off their job at hospitals within the Mount Sinai, Montefiore and NewYork-Presbyterian systems. Since then the New York State Nurses Association—the union representing the nurses—has been engaging in negotiations with hospital management. The union has been arguing for pay increases and increased measures to protect the safety of nurses. After talks at the beginning of the week stalled, a federal mediator joined the mix. But so far, there are no signs that they are anywhere close to any agreement. In a statement, Angela Karafazli, a NewYork-Presbyterian spokeswoman, described the union’s proposals as “unreasonable.” Meanwhile, the New York State Nurses Association deemed the progress as “very little” and indicated that it “put forward a revised set of proposals that hospital executives rejected without offering a counter proposal.” Kaiser Permanente Nurses Strike Planned Meanwhile, the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals have delivered a 10-day…

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