The Manchin empire extends to a nondescript nursing home in deep coal country. It’s a relic of a social welfare system that has collapsed.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Care Crisis Isn’t What You Think
Our problems are deeper than a lack of care infrastructure.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Infrastructure Summer: The Sophie’s Choice of the Reconciliation Bill
Democrats may have to decide whether to do a few things well or a bunch of things not so well.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
House, Senate Spar Over Reducing Drug Prices
There’s overwhelming support among Democrats for finally allowing Medicare to negotiate with drug companies. But the details matter.
Posted inEducation in America
Bureaucracy Jams Up Student Debt Relief for Disabled Borrowers
Recently announced student debt forgiveness for ‘totally and permanently disabled’ people leaves many at the mercy of a bureaucratic and somewhat random process.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Will Biden Build Back Home Care Better?
Democrats want to expand home care access, but Republicans stand in the way.
Posted inCoronavirus
Making Room for Children Vulnerable to COVID
The needs of immunocompromised and disabled children are being neglected as schools prepare to fully reopen in the fall.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Longest 80 Miles: How Nursing Home Evictions Tear Families Apart
In upstate New York, a nursing home eviction due to a debt has indefinitely separated two women’s enduring love by 80 miles.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
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.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
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.