Joel Landau, who has a history of stripping nursing homes for real estate gains, now owns the largest chain in the country.
Health and Social Policy
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Biden Plan Would Allow People Needing Care to Stay at Home
A $400 billion expansion of home and community-based services would revitalize a badly underfunded system.
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The Big Tech of Health Care
The merger between a subsidiary of UnitedHealth and Change Healthcare would create a vertically integrated, all-seeing giant.
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The Digital Divide Pushed My Dad’s Life to the Brink
As public benefits migrate online, senior citizens are being left behind.
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North Carolina Botched an Emergency Re-entry Program for Returning Citizens
A re-entry program that quarantined people with possible COVID-19 exposure endangered their lives and reproduced the prison conditions they left behind.
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The Importance of the ‘VA Advantage’
A new study confirms that VA patients get better health care at a lower overall cost.
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Federalize It, Joe Biden
The American Rescue Plan isn’t complete until welfare program administration is taken back from the states.
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The Almost Big F*cking Deal in the COVID Relief Bill
The bill corrects the ‘subsidy cliff,’ which made health insurance unaffordable for millions and frustrated reform efforts. But the fix only lasts two years.
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Minimum-Wage Misfire Also Harms Disabled People
Bundled in the minimum-wage increase in the COVID relief bill was an abolition of subminimum wage for disabled people. That’s now gone too.
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Out of Money and Exhausted
A vicious cycle of sleeplessness and financial deprivation persists in low-income communities during the pandemic.
