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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Moves to Impede Consumer Lawsuits Against Nursing Homes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/us/politics/trump-impedes-consumer-lawsuits-against-nursing-homes-deregulation.htmlThe Trump administration is pushing to scrap a rule that would have made it easier for nursing home residents to sue nursing homes for injuries caused by substandard care, abuse or neglect, bringing its campaign to relax federal regulations to the delicate business of care for older Americans.
The push would undo a rule issued by the Obama administration that would have prevented nursing homes from requiring that consumers agree to resolve any disputes through arbitration rather than litigation. Nursing homes routinely require consumers to sign an arbitration agreement as a condition of admission to the home.
The proposed rule brings together a broader private-sector effort to slip binding-arbitration clauses into the fine print of consumer contracts with the Trump administrations expansive efforts to roll back regulations and reduce the costs to businesses.
But both matters are particularly sensitive when it comes to older Americans, especially those in nursing homes where such arbitration agreements have already blocked legal recourse, even in egregious cases. About half of nursing home residents have Alzheimers disease or other dementia, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, and consumer advocates say harried family members could easily miss the arbitration clauses as they move a loved one into a home offering care.
Individuals are very vulnerable when they sign contracts to enter a nursing home, said Kimberly A. Valentine, a lawyer in Orange County, Calif., who has represented scores of nursing home residents. In many cases, they are transferred from a hospital, and they are in a nursing home bed for several days before the contracts are even signed. The arbitration agreement may be just one page in a voluminous contract of 30 to 40 pages. Most of the people who come to me have no idea theyve even signed an arbitration agreement.
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Trump Moves to Impede Consumer Lawsuits Against Nursing Homes. (Original Post)
Cattledog
Aug 2017
OP
If he won't be honest and grow a Hitler moustache, he ought to at least meet the truth halfway
Dark n Stormy Knight
Aug 2017
#4
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)1. If it's bad, he's for it. If it's good, he's against it.
Who but the devil can claim that kind of consistency?
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)2. Of course he is. He is a fucking sociopath
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)3. When he abolishes Medicaid, it won't matter anyway.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)4. If he won't be honest and grow a Hitler moustache, he ought to at least meet the truth halfway
and grow a Snidely Whiplash one.