>Consumer groups are making a last ditch effort to stop the Trump administration from stripping nursing home residents and their families of the right to take facilities to court over abuse, neglect or rape.
>The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) announced plans in June to do away with an Obama-era rule that prohibited nursing homes that accept Medicare or Medicaid funds from including language in their resident contracts requiring that disputes be settled by a third party rather than under an actual court. Making them mostly powerless to stop themselves from being abused by their care takers.
http://thehill.com/regulation/healthcare/345411-fight-over-right-to-sue-nursing-homes-heats-up
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http://archive.is/ZEqQM
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fake news
abuse/neglect/rape is a criminal act, so will still be prosecuted by courts obviously.
however the third party "disputes" is about people with friv lawsuits like they slipped on a banana peel and now family is suing for 10 billion dollars.
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Yeah when you let lawyers sue medical providers for anything it massively drives up cost for numerous reasons.
1. They practice all sorts of costly defensive medicine.
2. They have to pay massive amounts in liability insurance
3. These things and the insurers deep pockets cause 1 and 2 to massively spiral upwards.