By Robert Gebelhoff Robert Gebelhoff Opinions contributor focusing on health, science and public policy. Email Bio Follow Assistant editor and Opinions contributor March 25 at 12:39 PM In December 2017, President Trump, standing proudly beside several massive stacks of papers that represented the federal government’s expansive regulatory regime, boasted that his administration had removed more than 22 times as many regulations as it had added.
To no one’s surprise, Trump rolled back these policies soon after entering office. The number of per-day fines plummeted. The ban on mandatory arbitration was blocked. Trump even delayed the enforcement of new health and safety requirements by 18 months, much to the delight of the nursing home industry.
This is important because elder care is a multibillion-dollar field, and nursing homes — especially large chain operations — have revenue in the millions of dollars. Small, one-off fines barely register in this context. The daily fines the Obama administration levied could rack up quickly, resulting in higher average fines. The lower average under Trump suggests that offenders are being spared the harshest penalties.
Edelman has been closely tracking these nursing homes, especially those that the federal government classified as having “not improved” since they were first listed as special focus facilities. She has found that the Trump administration has largely pulled back its enforcement of them, issuing increasingly small fines even though the government continued to cite them for serious violations, according to her most recent analysis of CMS data in January.
Nursing homes were bad enough, with deregulation they have to be nightmares. What are they doing?
Trump & the rest of those cronies better hope their family is there for them when they are too elderly to work.. You never know when the caretaker is someone who lost loved one because of this nonsense
Suicide for too many will be the result of this callous thievery, for too many elderly, may be only alternative for desperate elderly. Hang Trump and the GOP agenda! Murdering scumbags who only value the rich. Sick thieves!
I am pretty sure I’d want to be killed if I got dumped into a nursing home. There is a point where family and hospital can’t help you as much as you need. I don’t want to live weeks months or years in a nursing home. Not of the kinds I know.
What about the hidden victims of Obamacare like me Or how about the victims that will be murdered on their birthday by the Democrats agenda
WaPo just another leftist InfoWars FakeNews
right now:
trump , 4 trump , not over yet, he's was worried 2 much.
Are the media in Europe talking about Israel's occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights and the Israeli bombing of civilians in the Gaza Strip or just talking about Islamic terrorism?
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