Get rid of bureaucratic bullshit and you'd get > 250 billion $ a year [1]. Get rid of insurances and other middlemen and you'd get another 450 billion $ a year by going for single-payer [2]. Then, get the homeless enrolled in insurance as well - even if the government pays the premium, every single homeless person costs > 18k a year in ER visits [3], a lot of which could be prevented if these people could go to a doctor before they'd be sick enough to incur serious ER costs. And finally, get as many homeless drug addicts back into some sort of stable housing. A lot of drug usage "on the streets" is self-medication to cope with the immense stress that comes from being homeless. Yes, there will always be a certain percentage of hardcore voluntary homeless people, but that's way better manageable than the status quo.
That should be way more than enough to hire enough nurses.
That should be way more than enough to hire enough nurses.
[1] https://www.americanprogress.org/article/excess-administrati...
[2] https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/yale-study-more-than-3350...
[3] https://www.newsweek.com/homeless-americans-are-costing-us-m...