While we're not looking, the Trump administration strikes again.

[sinkingfeeling]

Last edited Sat Mar 23, 2019, 05:58 PM - Edit history (1)

The Trump administration has announced a new policy that will cut the fines placed on nursing homes that abuse and endanger their residents.[1]

These reduced fines are letting the nursing home corporations get away with putting their residents in serious danger. In just one example from NPR, the Trump Administration “reduced $54,600 in daily fines to a single fine of $20,965 for a New Mexico home where workers hadn't been properly disinfecting equipment to prevent infectious diseases from spreading.”

NPR is reporting that the Trump administration has announced a new policy that will cut the fines placed on nursing homes that have put their residents at risk. They’ve also rolled back an Obama-era rule that had protected residents from being forced into arbitration to settle legal disputes instead of allowing their cases to see the light of day.1

According to National Public Radio (NPR):

“The decrease in fines is one of the starkest examples of how, in response to industry prodding, the Trump administration is rolling back Obama’s aggressive regulation of health care services.”

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/03/15/702645465/trump-administration-cuts-the-size-of-fines-for-health-violations-in-nursing-hom

[enough]

1. These are the real crimes. The ones perpetrated every day by this "administration." NT

[Chin music]

2. Vote in 2020 right? It's only 19 months away.

Imagine the damage. Meanwhile, the right wing media will parse and vet D candidates as if they are recruiting for Mother Teresas job, and letting trump off the hook. We're easy targets. If we don't start really putting the boots to the gop, ....ugh. Nevermind.
He never creates anything. Just destroys, and acts like thats governing. his "list of achievements" are all wrecking what someone else pain-stakingly created.

[Demovictory9]

13. yup.

[katmondoo]

3. I will die at home or in a hospice

[kairos12]

5. I volunteered for a hospice. I will

do the same as you.

[mopinko]

23. me too. i am a hospice volunteer also.

will pull my own plug before i go to a nursing home.

[hedda_foil]

4. We can only hope they'll be sued and this perversion of power stopped in its tracks.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. Is there any act of depravity Fat Donnie and his minions won't do?

Are they just going through the Federal Register and if a regulation was put into place by Obama, it's automatically canceled? I wouldn't be surprised. Dubya did the same thing with any regulation put into place by Clinton, all in the name of "balance." In this case there's no pretext of balance; Trump is just running roughshod over the regulatory function of government because he can.

I hope the MAGAts notice what their Fearless Leader just did to their parents.

[Mickju]

7. Which one of his buddies is in the nursing home business?

His corruption knows no bounds.

[DENVERPOPS]

12. Owens did same thing in Colorado

Then Republican Governor Owens (a major "W" suck up) did the same type of thing here in Colorado when one of his MAJOR campaign donors owned 150 nursing homes and requested he "lighten up" on the already low number of State Inspectors..........

I spent three days in one of their nursing homes and it was horrific to say the least.

Owen's horrific acts included sending eleven of our twelve Military wildfire fighting helicopters to Texas because "W" wanted them to be torn down for parts needed in Iraq.....It was the worst year for wildfires in Colorado History........

He sooooo wanted a place in "W"s administration, he was doing anything and everything he could possibly do for "W" and his administration...........

Ironically, even the Republicans were wise to him and just used him, but would never let him go to Washington.....It might have had something to do with the fact that he had recently spawned TWO illegitimate children with TWO different women. His "typical Republican Wife" stood by him until she learned of his SECOND AFFAIR and bastard child.........only then did she divorce him.......

Does anyone wonder how the Republicans allow so many "pussy grabbers" in office like Trump & his cronies?????????????

[barbtries]

15. just an aside.

as the mother of 3 children born out of wedlock I think the term "illegitimate" as applied to children is obsolete. call me an illegitimate mother if you want. thank you

[defacto7]

16. +1

among other similar references...

[Mickju]

18. Republican evil never seems to end.

Sorry for your horrific experience.

[gtar100]

8. This is the kind of thing republicans support.

Whether they know it or not. While they fight about idealogy, their policy makers and law makers set up rules that breed corruption. They are distracted by fear of socialism while the insiders pick their pockets and make lives miserable through unjust and unreasonable rules. I hope all these dyed-in-the-wool republicans get their own planet some day, far away from the rest of us, so they can experiment with their ideas on themselves and leave the rest of us out of it. In the meantime, they are going to have to put up with us.

[IcyPeas]

9. I swear they search for anything with Obama's name on it

And undo it. (While the assclown is tweeting and flailing his little hands around, and that's what the media focus on)

[McCamy Taylor]

10. An ice floe would be kinder. This is institutionalized murder of the elderly.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Republicans want to kill grandma

[defacto7]

17. They don't even recognize that grandma exists.

they just want to make a buck.

[barbtries]

14. great,

now vulnerable people will be eliminated more quickly.

there is no end. no low too low.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. Link needs to be fixed, here it is (OP is missing "h" in "https")

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/03/15/702645465/trump-administration-cuts-the-size-of-fines-for-health-violations-in-nursing-hom

Also the CMS policy went into effect in July 2017 (almost 2 years ago) - https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Provider-Enrollment-and-Certification/SurveyCertificationGenInfo/Policy-and-Memos-to-States-and-Regions-Items/Survey-and-Cert-Letter-17-37.html

[sinkingfeeling]

20. Thanks.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. And thank you for the heads up on this!!

[suffragette]

22. The real death panels are the CEOs who profit from neglect and this Administration that enables them

[malaise]

24. This is a government of vultures

They prey on anyone as they enrich themselves