I watched the Frontline Life and Death in Assisted Living here
and read about it here.
I work in skilled nursing and there is plenty to be angry about, but I didn’t know “Assisted Living” was such a huge problem as well.
pittings for everyone who puts profits before care for all the vulnerable adults out there :mad:
Sorry, can’t get behind this at all. At least, not based on the PBS article. It seemed more than a little slanted.
For instance -
How long is “recent years”? Five years? Ten? Nor does it state the nature of the negligence. Is it serious, or the petty sort of “You filled out Form 1022-A in duplicate instead of triplicate”?
The PBS piece seems to take it for granted that federal oversight is better than state regulation. On what do they base that? Or are we simply supposed to accept it as gospel? It does not seem to me to be self-evident that a bureaucrat in Washington DC is better equipped to regulate a nursing home in Califorrnia than CA bureaucrats.
Sounds to me like typical statist bullshit - make assisted living more expensive, more buried in paperwork, and more answerable to people further away and less involved, and based on a federal one-size-fits-all approach that takes no notice of differences between Florida and North Dakota.
Regards,
Shodan
What exactly are the differences between folks in nursing homes in Florida and folks in nursing homes in North Dakota that makes a federal minimum standard so bad?
Sounds to me like typical anti-statist bullshit.
CMC fnord!
Must be a blue moon, as I’m agreeing with Shodan. Federal government has enough on its plate, what with spying on 300 million of its own people. Let the states fuck it up, they don’t need feds fucking it up.
And for starters, nursing homes in Florida need proper air-conditioning and N. Dakota need proper heating, and North Dakota understands heating far better then Florida, and Florida understands air conditioning (and mosquito/fire ant control) far better than North Dakota.
Yeah, I think this is my once-monthly agreeing with Shodan as well. That article (didn’t see the video) was very light on specifics regarding the types of abuses that have been punished with the $150 fine. I have no doubt bad shit happens in some low-quality assisted living facilities, but my contact with others has been top-notch. I don’t really see how additional federal oversight would help.
I am a bit leery of the “sell your life insurance for assisted living care” law - I’d need to read a bit more to understand that (and the fact that the states taking the lead are Texas and Kentucky doesn’t instill confidence).
I’m an avid watcher of Frontline, and saw the show when it aired. Didn’t get too outraged. Didn’t learn anything new. Bottom line is money, always has been, always will be…