Trump Wants To Make It OK For Nursing Homes To Abuse The Elderly

If you had any question about whether or not Donald Trump honestly was the most heartless
person to ever hold the office of the presidency, take a look at this.
During the Obama years, Obama, towards the end of his term, created a regulation that
said nursing homes can no longer use forced arbitration clauses when signing a contract
for a new person to come live in a nursing home.
What that means, when you sign that arbitration clause, is that if they do anything bad to
you, if they screw up, if they hurt you intentionally or otherwise, you cannot take them to court.
Obama said, "You know what, that's pretty unfair.
That's pretty screwed up.
We're going to do away with it."
Now, his regulation never actually went into effect, or technically has not gone into effect
yet, but Donald Trump has decided, at the urging of the US Chamber of Commerce, to get
rid of that regulation altogether.
To put it in its simplest terms, Donald Trump doesn't want your grandparents or your parents
or your great grandparents, whoever it is living in a nursing home, to be able to sue
that nursing home when they abuse or neglect or do something that gets them killed.
Now, you may not think that this is a big problem, but it is.
For every one case of a nursing home abuse that is reported, it's estimated that another
five go unreported.
One out of six nursing home residents in the United States, one out of six, has reported
some form of abuse.
Many have been forced to actually call 911 from their own personal cellphones while in
the nursing home, due to the treatment that they have received from the nursing home employee.
75% of cases reported have been of employees physically or emotionally or even financially
abusing nursing home residents.
There has been instances where nursing home caregivers have taken the financial information
from their patients and literally stolen money from them.
They've wired the money out of their retirement accounts into the employee's accounts.
These people, some of them have Alzheimer's they don't quite know until the family finds
out, after the person passes away, that grandma or grandpa's pension fund has been pilfered
for a decade by a greedy nursing home employee.
Nursing home abuse happens all the time.
One out of three nursing homes in the United States during a recent study was cited for
either physical abuse, financial abuse or dangerous conditions that could lead to personal
injury or death for nursing home residents.
That's about as serious as it gets, and Donald Trump doesn't want the elderly, who are the
most vulnerable of our population, to be able to take these people to court when they screw
them over.
Instead, he wants to send them in front of an arbitration panel.
Do you know what that means?
It means they're going to go in front of corporate-friendly arbitrators, have to pay an exorbitant amount
of money, and 80% of the time they lose.
This is great for corporations, and that's why the US Chamber of Commerce is supporting
it, but it is basically a death sentence for the elderly population of the United States.
Again, if you don't think Donald Trump is the most heartless person to ever hold the
office of the presidency, at least during our lifetimes, then I suggest you check out
this story because it is one of the truly most disgusting things that I have seen from
this administration in these short seven months.
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Trump Wants To Make It OK For Nursing Homes To Abuse The Elderly

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