Today on TAP: If Medicaid is expanded in the BBB, the senator doesn’t want it to cover abortions.
Medicaid
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Democrats Expand Obamacare While Abandoning It
While learning the lessons of the Affordable Care Act, Democrats are still building on top of it instead of seeking a better design.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Private Equity’s Potential Payday From Build Back Better
Hundreds of billions of dollars are scheduled for industries private equity dominates. Advocates want to make sure workers and families benefit, not financiers.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
What the Caregiver Workforce Shortage Means for the Future of Care
The reconciliation bill before the Senate would transform caregiving work and make it more accessible to families who need it.
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 inHealth and Social Policy
Biden Would Rather Build an Entirely New Welfare State Than Touch the Hospitals
Health care improvements are minor and largely neglected in Biden’s new plan because he doesn’t want to arouse the ire of health care lobbyists.
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
Government’s Unused Power to Regulate Nursing Homes
Let’s not give more taxpayer money to corrupt nursing home operators until we replace them with caregivers who place care over profits.
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 inTAP
A $25 Minimum Wage for Caregivers
Today on TAP: The pittance we pay caregivers is a disgrace
