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.
Medicaid
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
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Federalize It, Joe Biden
The American Rescue Plan isn’t complete until welfare program administration is taken back from the states.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Democrats Must Federalize Medicaid
A signature piece of Joe Biden’s campaign agenda should be part of the first major economic package.
Posted inFamily Care
How to Finance Universal Family Care
Considering the options for building a new social-insurance program
Posted inFamily Care
The Neglect of Disability Care
Home care workers and unpaid caregivers who support disabled people are often left out of public-policy initiatives.