Thank you for unmasking the predatory political con going on in Ohio. It’s just as bad in Florida too. Between RFK Eugenic policies and Private Equity bottom line management I fear as an RN that there’s more shenanigans brewing. Understaffed, underpaid, overwhelmed and exhausted, nursing is not a politically strong lobby but will hold the line at the facility bedside and in the home setting for patients and families to the best of ability. It’s getting more difficult with entrenched, ignorant and greedy politicians and business owners who continue to amass & consolidate power and fortunes.
Nursing homes are the worst. My late wife stayed in one several times over the course of an 18 month illness that eventually proved fatal. Among other issues, cash she’d requested for incidental expenses was stolen from her.
But the worst was the morning she died. They let me see her without making any attempts to clean her up from the EMTs, so my last memory of her was with bloody froth coming out of her mouth.
I’d go jump off a building before I’d let them put me in one of those places.
I have been around nursing homes and memory care homes due to family members needing care for decades. Even the best of them are sorely lacking. Thank you for shining a light on these Ohio fraudsters. Unsurprising but horrifying.
I'm a paid caregiver in Oregon. I care for my autistic 20 year old daughter. She has moderate support needs. Yeah, we kind of just hang out but I'm there to support her and help her with anything she needs. It's also part of my job to encourage her to do things independently. She doesn't drive and doesn't want to so I take her everywhere. I take her to school, shopping, out to eat. She has an eating disorder so to makes sure she eats, I often pick up take out food. She finds very few foods palatable and she won't eat anything except spaghetti if I don't. If she's tired of that she just won't eat.
No, I don't attend to any complex medical issues. I do facilitate all of her medical and therapy appointments. I help her stay on track in school. I organize her calendar. I have a job, I do it and I do it well. I document my care extensively, far more so than Medicaid requires.
She is evaluated for her care needs and is given a specific amount of hours per week to use for a support person. Basically anyone who qualifies. It so happens that I qualify and it's my full time job as a result. Medicaid determines the level of support with daily activities that she needs.
She won't brush her teeth every day. I remind her every day and prompt her to do it as often as I can get her to. Same with showering. It's not that she can't do those things. Without support, she just won't.
Now, are any of these supports things that I wouldn't be doing anyway? No. But Medicaid says she needs help and it's my actual job. She could get a stranger to do it. That's her choice. But who is going to take better care of her than I do? So if she wants to go to the bookstore and try a new cafe, it's my job to take her. When she's done, it's my job to take her home when she says so. I guess we're just "hanging out" but that's really a gross (and gross) misrepresentation if what I do.
No, I'm not require to attend to complex medical needs for her to qualify as someone who needs care. So that's an issue I take with this analysis. No one, except Medicaid and their determination of her level of support needs, gets to say what is or isn't valid support for my AuDHD daughter. She needs every bit of help navigating the world. She could not do it on her own. I'm not putting her in a fucking group home. They are the ones caring for those higher support needs people. My daughter would get lost in that system because she's HiGh FuNcTiOnInG (also it's ableist and gross to use labels like that, btw). These guys can fuck off all the way over there. They don't know us and they don't pretend to. My daughter is living her best life because of me. Would I make sure of that anyway? Hell, yes. But I get paid for it and THAT enables me to truly support her in every way that matters because she wants for nothing and I make sure she stays exceptionally well regulated. Which isn't nothing.
Also, this is nothing but structural eugenics, which are traps Republicans are trying to spring in disabled people around every corner. They know there are poorer outcomes for disabled people outside their homes. It's a feature, not a bug. Also see where they've tried limiting SNAP for families with disabled family members on SSI living at home with them. They also require disabled people to pay the family a fair market value for rent out of their SSI checks, so if there are dishonest family members in the home, it's already a predatory system. On SSI, you also cannot legally save money over $2000 at any time to still qualify for benefits or Medicaid eligibility. Again, it's already a predatory system designed to keep people in poverty. Then they accuse them of stealing bread out of the mouths of upstanding taxpayers, who are then convinced of it. Disabled Americans aren't the ones stealing bread.
Every home caregiver must now clock in and out with GPS tracking, movements captured throughout every visit...... In addition to all of the very valid comments above , this is also busy normalizing total geotracking. Long term, I expect that to be applied to everybody in the country as if we were all recent parolees.
Yes, I have GPS tracking for clocking in and out but I don't have problems clocking in away from home. I have to document the reason I'm claiming mileage for activities outside the house with my daughter who I care for. But in Oregon, maybe they can but they don't track our movements or anything invasive like that.
"So, Vivek Ramaswamy received $17,500 from a single nursing home family" - the list from just before this actually adds up to $40,000 from the Sprenger's
didn't check the other totals
and your point totally valid regardless, just noted the add
May these men spend the end of their lives in the same understaffed nursing homes that they own, with the same underpaid & overworked people caring for them!
I wonder how many in Ohio are connected to Les Wexner? It’s definitely a pattern with Project 2025/Heritage Foundation/Epstein Circle…money launder tax money & reduce the population of innocent Americans.
and it's always the patients being gas lighted and blamed. Actual Medicaid fraud (already pursued by legitimate gov't organizations over the decades) happens in Professional circles: doctor's offices, hospitals, Professional Providers who are the thieves, not the patients.
These people are criminals. They have built huge nursing homes, skilled units, assisted living. The staffing is absolutely minimal at best. The pay is obscene. The staff can reflect that level of respect-it shows in their work. The needs of the residents are absolutely dead last. Do not EVER make the mistake of thinking that they care about anything but money.
The fact that this makes no sense is the red flag. Of course people are better off at home being cared for. This has been studied and proven. And make no mistake there is plenty of work to go around. These billionaires won't starve. Their employees may need food stamps.
Although with a parent in end stage Alzheimer’s, there are situations where home care is impossible. Thankfully my parents were frugal and my father left enough funds for mom’s care. But even at this high end memory care facility, th staff are grossly underpaid (but really care). The facility was just sold to a large corporation and the new policies were clearly written by lawyers with no understanding of what end of death is like for patients with severe dementia.
So evil!
Thank you for unmasking the predatory political con going on in Ohio. It’s just as bad in Florida too. Between RFK Eugenic policies and Private Equity bottom line management I fear as an RN that there’s more shenanigans brewing. Understaffed, underpaid, overwhelmed and exhausted, nursing is not a politically strong lobby but will hold the line at the facility bedside and in the home setting for patients and families to the best of ability. It’s getting more difficult with entrenched, ignorant and greedy politicians and business owners who continue to amass & consolidate power and fortunes.
It is time for a reporter to document who is making all he money in nursing home chains across America. It is not he staff.
Liked, shared, promoted to my Ohio neighbors! Great work!
Nursing homes are the worst. My late wife stayed in one several times over the course of an 18 month illness that eventually proved fatal. Among other issues, cash she’d requested for incidental expenses was stolen from her.
But the worst was the morning she died. They let me see her without making any attempts to clean her up from the EMTs, so my last memory of her was with bloody froth coming out of her mouth.
I’d go jump off a building before I’d let them put me in one of those places.
I have been around nursing homes and memory care homes due to family members needing care for decades. Even the best of them are sorely lacking. Thank you for shining a light on these Ohio fraudsters. Unsurprising but horrifying.
Vampires
I'm a paid caregiver in Oregon. I care for my autistic 20 year old daughter. She has moderate support needs. Yeah, we kind of just hang out but I'm there to support her and help her with anything she needs. It's also part of my job to encourage her to do things independently. She doesn't drive and doesn't want to so I take her everywhere. I take her to school, shopping, out to eat. She has an eating disorder so to makes sure she eats, I often pick up take out food. She finds very few foods palatable and she won't eat anything except spaghetti if I don't. If she's tired of that she just won't eat.
No, I don't attend to any complex medical issues. I do facilitate all of her medical and therapy appointments. I help her stay on track in school. I organize her calendar. I have a job, I do it and I do it well. I document my care extensively, far more so than Medicaid requires.
She is evaluated for her care needs and is given a specific amount of hours per week to use for a support person. Basically anyone who qualifies. It so happens that I qualify and it's my full time job as a result. Medicaid determines the level of support with daily activities that she needs.
She won't brush her teeth every day. I remind her every day and prompt her to do it as often as I can get her to. Same with showering. It's not that she can't do those things. Without support, she just won't.
Now, are any of these supports things that I wouldn't be doing anyway? No. But Medicaid says she needs help and it's my actual job. She could get a stranger to do it. That's her choice. But who is going to take better care of her than I do? So if she wants to go to the bookstore and try a new cafe, it's my job to take her. When she's done, it's my job to take her home when she says so. I guess we're just "hanging out" but that's really a gross (and gross) misrepresentation if what I do.
No, I'm not require to attend to complex medical needs for her to qualify as someone who needs care. So that's an issue I take with this analysis. No one, except Medicaid and their determination of her level of support needs, gets to say what is or isn't valid support for my AuDHD daughter. She needs every bit of help navigating the world. She could not do it on her own. I'm not putting her in a fucking group home. They are the ones caring for those higher support needs people. My daughter would get lost in that system because she's HiGh FuNcTiOnInG (also it's ableist and gross to use labels like that, btw). These guys can fuck off all the way over there. They don't know us and they don't pretend to. My daughter is living her best life because of me. Would I make sure of that anyway? Hell, yes. But I get paid for it and THAT enables me to truly support her in every way that matters because she wants for nothing and I make sure she stays exceptionally well regulated. Which isn't nothing.
Also, this is nothing but structural eugenics, which are traps Republicans are trying to spring in disabled people around every corner. They know there are poorer outcomes for disabled people outside their homes. It's a feature, not a bug. Also see where they've tried limiting SNAP for families with disabled family members on SSI living at home with them. They also require disabled people to pay the family a fair market value for rent out of their SSI checks, so if there are dishonest family members in the home, it's already a predatory system. On SSI, you also cannot legally save money over $2000 at any time to still qualify for benefits or Medicaid eligibility. Again, it's already a predatory system designed to keep people in poverty. Then they accuse them of stealing bread out of the mouths of upstanding taxpayers, who are then convinced of it. Disabled Americans aren't the ones stealing bread.
Every home caregiver must now clock in and out with GPS tracking, movements captured throughout every visit...... In addition to all of the very valid comments above , this is also busy normalizing total geotracking. Long term, I expect that to be applied to everybody in the country as if we were all recent parolees.
Yes, I have GPS tracking for clocking in and out but I don't have problems clocking in away from home. I have to document the reason I'm claiming mileage for activities outside the house with my daughter who I care for. But in Oregon, maybe they can but they don't track our movements or anything invasive like that.
"So, Vivek Ramaswamy received $17,500 from a single nursing home family" - the list from just before this actually adds up to $40,000 from the Sprenger's
didn't check the other totals
and your point totally valid regardless, just noted the add
There’s a special room in hell for these miscreants.
May these men spend the end of their lives in the same understaffed nursing homes that they own, with the same underpaid & overworked people caring for them!
I wonder how many in Ohio are connected to Les Wexner? It’s definitely a pattern with Project 2025/Heritage Foundation/Epstein Circle…money launder tax money & reduce the population of innocent Americans.
and it's always the patients being gas lighted and blamed. Actual Medicaid fraud (already pursued by legitimate gov't organizations over the decades) happens in Professional circles: doctor's offices, hospitals, Professional Providers who are the thieves, not the patients.
These people are criminals. They have built huge nursing homes, skilled units, assisted living. The staffing is absolutely minimal at best. The pay is obscene. The staff can reflect that level of respect-it shows in their work. The needs of the residents are absolutely dead last. Do not EVER make the mistake of thinking that they care about anything but money.
The fact that this makes no sense is the red flag. Of course people are better off at home being cared for. This has been studied and proven. And make no mistake there is plenty of work to go around. These billionaires won't starve. Their employees may need food stamps.
Although with a parent in end stage Alzheimer’s, there are situations where home care is impossible. Thankfully my parents were frugal and my father left enough funds for mom’s care. But even at this high end memory care facility, th staff are grossly underpaid (but really care). The facility was just sold to a large corporation and the new policies were clearly written by lawyers with no understanding of what end of death is like for patients with severe dementia.
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