In the past two days, the Biden-Harris administration has announced a wide range of new rules to protect ordinary Americans. Yesterday, Vice President Kamala Harris announced that the administration has finalized two new rules affecting patients in nursing homes and receiving home care, as well as the workers who care for them. The first sets minimum staffing requirements for facilities funded by Medicare and Medicaid, and the second concerns how home healthcare companies account for Medicaid funding.
The whole short-funding of nursing homes is due to their having been bought up by the @#$#@#@!!! hedgefund scum, when the government made them 100% paid by MediCare. And then, like they do with anything else they buy, they hollowed them out to provide more money to the pinstriped pimps.
During my late wife's last 15 months here, we were able to take advantage of home hospice services. She was able to stay at home and the hospice sent an RN once a week to check on her, and three different LVNs/home care workers to bathe her and change her, and to take care of her other needs. That hospice was well-run and the care was excellent. We were able to get it when a county social worker (sicced on us by her worthless damn sisters) saw I was in overwhelm and recommended the place to us since she knew the operation. All paid by her MediCare. But there are certainly places (Yelp is real good on pointing out the bad ones) where the money is obviously being sucked up by the hedgefundscum who are looting the system.
Big, projectile sigh of relief..! Aid to Ukraine has passed both houses and is receiving the President's signature, finally. Nothing, but nothing, was gained by 6 months of delay. Correction, nothing for Americans, less than nothing for Ukraine. Perhaps, just maybe, a little more proactive engagement by NATO allies was achieved in separately pledging support and war materials to Ukraine to partly fill the gap created by the abdication of international obligations by the Repuglican caucus in the House. That is poor compensation for thousands of lost lives, widespread dispair and demoralization of a war-fatigued Ukrainian military and volunteer civilian corps supporting the war. I'm relieved, but also ashamed for my country. We can and should do better.
This is how we bring back the Middle Class. Now let’s make sure the voters know. The media as a whole are not helping so it is up to people like Heather Cox Richardson to do their job for them.
I just hope people are paying attention. The direct attack on fascist minority state governments' ability to demand women's health information to support their draconian anti-choice legislation is very welcome, and a sign I hope that the Biden administration will vigorously fight Red States overstepping their authority.
Great the number of positives that Heather sees and champions here today.
The largest batch begins the piece -- the Biden administration's effort to improve health and nursing home care, where insufficient workers and other poor conditions prevail.
The next batch isn't any batch of positives, but of areas where Americans are too unaware of practical steps being taken by government to aid Americans. This of course could find redress in the coming season of campaigns if Dems would align their appearances with each other to enunciate and celebrate their good programs.
Penultimate batch of positives is Biden's stop in Florida, where he's underlining America's need to reverse the theocrat medievalists eager to kill the rights of U.S. women.
The last batch concerns, finally, passage of aid to Ukraine, and other places the U.S. can shore up democracy and its incurred costs.
Heather's on a roll here, and midway in she interrupts herself, or digresses from the positives to note how the orange demagogue feels frustrated by his lack of fans parading in the streets for him. Suck it up, Donald.
Check this map for the deadly cost of Republican ignoring COVID experts. See how many people died from COVID in your community (thanks to data from the John Hopkins Medical Center).
Thank you Dr Richardson for writing about the Biden-Harris new rules for healthcare services, Medicare accountability, overtime pay, HIPPA and climate change. I watch MSNBC and did not know of these B/H wins for the middle class. This is a shout out to the Democratic establishment to promulgate these achievements in plain English for all to see and hear and recognize !
A quick scan of this morning’s NY Times on-line headlines revealed a story on the new FTC non-compete rules, and no mention of the other new healthcare rules cited by HCR
Biden and the Democrats indeed have some PR work to do.
We have a conundrum, how to care for our elderly in the declining years of their life, and staff care facilities sufficiently well that patients and clients are well care for, and that the caretakers earn a living wage while doing so. Increasingly, the cost of long-term care is outstripping the ability of working people to save enough, and to invest enough, to be able to afford the care that they need as they get older. People are living longer, there are no economies of scale, and we are relying increasingly on recent immigrants to undertake the tasks of becoming care givers.
Great news Dr. Richardson, It's been a long time coming but the sun is shining on America once again, Now trump could do everyone a huge favor and have a massive, fatal heart attack.
"we stand resolutely for democracy and freedom, and against tyranny and oppression.”
This rings hollow for me. I, like Biden, have blindly supported Israel all my life. This was due to the holocaust, and my age. Israel was only 12 years old when I was born.
But my unquestioning support of a Jewish homeland, at last, was also because I was raised in an Irish and Italian Catholic town, run by White Protestants, but I somehow surrounded ended up with only Jewish friends. (There was one black friend, for a moment, before the locals somehow ran her family off my street.)
One best friend was from the south side of the tracks (a little nicer) and the other 2 live on the cul de sac where All the other Jews lived. Cindy, Michelle and Pam were my do or dies. I was invited for Passover and for seder, and political discussions around the table, and my favorite snacks (dingdongs and TandyCakes) were kept in their bread drawers for me. I was also introduced to the wonderful, bohemian artist and inventor life, and freedom of thought.
Since my own parents were ex-Catholics who sent us to catechism just to inoculate us against the Power of the Church, this makes sense. I was a free thinker. Don't ever underestimate the intellectual life of a child.
Mea culpa.
I never applied the same skepticism to the theocratic concept of Zionism. I celebrated Israel as a manifestation of justice vs persecution. In 8 million ways, it is. My friends were Reform, if they practiced religion at all. I knew this. I was drawn to their freedom to Question the Torah.
My sister and I had both been thrown out of catechism just for asking "awkward" questions like "why can't priests get married" and "why do babies who never heard of the holy spirit have to suffer in purgatory?"
When my friend Michelle invited me to her reform synagogue I actually believed, in spite of my inoculation, that I might be struck by lightning. I am not exaggerating. This was 1969. Michelle wasn't nervous about being struck down. She was just shy and didn't want anyone to notice. We were both exploring. We were gently poking at the boundaries.
Today, I am afraid to poke at all. I have written and deleted so many emails to journalists, comments on ig. But I am afraid to actually hit send. Not because the MAGAns might come after me, and my family, and my business. Because yes, I have swallowed the frog since 2016 because of that fear.
No, sadly, now I am afraid of the "ironclad supporters" of Israel.
I am crying as I write this.
I demonstrated "in the quad" for divestment from South Africa. I am with the kids on the lawn. I am with the Jewish Voices For Peace students.
Bibi is the Trump of Israel. I am so sad that Israel's "democracy" has not risen against him.
Yet look at us? US. Bibi knows we're up against the rails.
We Must support Biden against Project 2025 (aka Fascism)
at any cost?
Truly I am crying as I write this. And I communicate that to him, and Dr. Jill, and VP, and many, many Democrats every day.
I am With those students in the quads. I remain #uncommitted
David Pecker did not testify for the prosecution. He was called to testify by the prosecution. Legally speaking, there is no such thing as a prosecution or defense witness. They are simply witnesses. Oftentimes, they are reluctant witnesses or they feign reluctance.
The whole short-funding of nursing homes is due to their having been bought up by the @#$#@#@!!! hedgefund scum, when the government made them 100% paid by MediCare. And then, like they do with anything else they buy, they hollowed them out to provide more money to the pinstriped pimps.
Hedgefunds have to be declared illegal.
During my late wife's last 15 months here, we were able to take advantage of home hospice services. She was able to stay at home and the hospice sent an RN once a week to check on her, and three different LVNs/home care workers to bathe her and change her, and to take care of her other needs. That hospice was well-run and the care was excellent. We were able to get it when a county social worker (sicced on us by her worthless damn sisters) saw I was in overwhelm and recommended the place to us since she knew the operation. All paid by her MediCare. But there are certainly places (Yelp is real good on pointing out the bad ones) where the money is obviously being sucked up by the hedgefundscum who are looting the system.
Big, projectile sigh of relief..! Aid to Ukraine has passed both houses and is receiving the President's signature, finally. Nothing, but nothing, was gained by 6 months of delay. Correction, nothing for Americans, less than nothing for Ukraine. Perhaps, just maybe, a little more proactive engagement by NATO allies was achieved in separately pledging support and war materials to Ukraine to partly fill the gap created by the abdication of international obligations by the Repuglican caucus in the House. That is poor compensation for thousands of lost lives, widespread dispair and demoralization of a war-fatigued Ukrainian military and volunteer civilian corps supporting the war. I'm relieved, but also ashamed for my country. We can and should do better.
This is how we bring back the Middle Class. Now let’s make sure the voters know. The media as a whole are not helping so it is up to people like Heather Cox Richardson to do their job for them.
I just hope people are paying attention. The direct attack on fascist minority state governments' ability to demand women's health information to support their draconian anti-choice legislation is very welcome, and a sign I hope that the Biden administration will vigorously fight Red States overstepping their authority.
Great the number of positives that Heather sees and champions here today.
The largest batch begins the piece -- the Biden administration's effort to improve health and nursing home care, where insufficient workers and other poor conditions prevail.
The next batch isn't any batch of positives, but of areas where Americans are too unaware of practical steps being taken by government to aid Americans. This of course could find redress in the coming season of campaigns if Dems would align their appearances with each other to enunciate and celebrate their good programs.
Penultimate batch of positives is Biden's stop in Florida, where he's underlining America's need to reverse the theocrat medievalists eager to kill the rights of U.S. women.
The last batch concerns, finally, passage of aid to Ukraine, and other places the U.S. can shore up democracy and its incurred costs.
Heather's on a roll here, and midway in she interrupts herself, or digresses from the positives to note how the orange demagogue feels frustrated by his lack of fans parading in the streets for him. Suck it up, Donald.
Quite a split screen. Biden-Harris achievements as Trump is forced to just sit there.
Check this map for the deadly cost of Republican ignoring COVID experts. See how many people died from COVID in your community (thanks to data from the John Hopkins Medical Center).
https://arcg.is/1fWqPb
Why is grandma treated like dirt at the nursing home? Follow the money with this interactive chart.
https://thedemlabs.org/2023/12/26/private-equity-lenders-exploit-seniors-and-nursing-homes/
Thank you Dr Richardson for writing about the Biden-Harris new rules for healthcare services, Medicare accountability, overtime pay, HIPPA and climate change. I watch MSNBC and did not know of these B/H wins for the middle class. This is a shout out to the Democratic establishment to promulgate these achievements in plain English for all to see and hear and recognize !
A quick scan of this morning’s NY Times on-line headlines revealed a story on the new FTC non-compete rules, and no mention of the other new healthcare rules cited by HCR
Biden and the Democrats indeed have some PR work to do.
We have a conundrum, how to care for our elderly in the declining years of their life, and staff care facilities sufficiently well that patients and clients are well care for, and that the caretakers earn a living wage while doing so. Increasingly, the cost of long-term care is outstripping the ability of working people to save enough, and to invest enough, to be able to afford the care that they need as they get older. People are living longer, there are no economies of scale, and we are relying increasingly on recent immigrants to undertake the tasks of becoming care givers.
Great news Dr. Richardson, It's been a long time coming but the sun is shining on America once again, Now trump could do everyone a huge favor and have a massive, fatal heart attack.
One of the best gifts to myself was to get a subscription to the writings of Dr. Heather Cox Richardson on Substack.
Thank you, Dr. Richardson, for all that you write.
"we stand resolutely for democracy and freedom, and against tyranny and oppression.”
This rings hollow for me. I, like Biden, have blindly supported Israel all my life. This was due to the holocaust, and my age. Israel was only 12 years old when I was born.
But my unquestioning support of a Jewish homeland, at last, was also because I was raised in an Irish and Italian Catholic town, run by White Protestants, but I somehow surrounded ended up with only Jewish friends. (There was one black friend, for a moment, before the locals somehow ran her family off my street.)
One best friend was from the south side of the tracks (a little nicer) and the other 2 live on the cul de sac where All the other Jews lived. Cindy, Michelle and Pam were my do or dies. I was invited for Passover and for seder, and political discussions around the table, and my favorite snacks (dingdongs and TandyCakes) were kept in their bread drawers for me. I was also introduced to the wonderful, bohemian artist and inventor life, and freedom of thought.
Since my own parents were ex-Catholics who sent us to catechism just to inoculate us against the Power of the Church, this makes sense. I was a free thinker. Don't ever underestimate the intellectual life of a child.
Mea culpa.
I never applied the same skepticism to the theocratic concept of Zionism. I celebrated Israel as a manifestation of justice vs persecution. In 8 million ways, it is. My friends were Reform, if they practiced religion at all. I knew this. I was drawn to their freedom to Question the Torah.
My sister and I had both been thrown out of catechism just for asking "awkward" questions like "why can't priests get married" and "why do babies who never heard of the holy spirit have to suffer in purgatory?"
When my friend Michelle invited me to her reform synagogue I actually believed, in spite of my inoculation, that I might be struck by lightning. I am not exaggerating. This was 1969. Michelle wasn't nervous about being struck down. She was just shy and didn't want anyone to notice. We were both exploring. We were gently poking at the boundaries.
Today, I am afraid to poke at all. I have written and deleted so many emails to journalists, comments on ig. But I am afraid to actually hit send. Not because the MAGAns might come after me, and my family, and my business. Because yes, I have swallowed the frog since 2016 because of that fear.
No, sadly, now I am afraid of the "ironclad supporters" of Israel.
I am crying as I write this.
I demonstrated "in the quad" for divestment from South Africa. I am with the kids on the lawn. I am with the Jewish Voices For Peace students.
Bibi is the Trump of Israel. I am so sad that Israel's "democracy" has not risen against him.
Yet look at us? US. Bibi knows we're up against the rails.
We Must support Biden against Project 2025 (aka Fascism)
at any cost?
Truly I am crying as I write this. And I communicate that to him, and Dr. Jill, and VP, and many, many Democrats every day.
I am With those students in the quads. I remain #uncommitted
David Pecker did not testify for the prosecution. He was called to testify by the prosecution. Legally speaking, there is no such thing as a prosecution or defense witness. They are simply witnesses. Oftentimes, they are reluctant witnesses or they feign reluctance.
I want to underscore the need for Biden to get out the message about his accomplishments and goals in the climate change arena