Posted on 08/19/2021 6:04:03 AM PDT by shortstop
Joe Biden is going to do to nursing homes what he did to Afghanistan.
His decree that all nursing home employees must be vaccinated, or their employers would lose their Medicare and Medicaid funding, is going to set off a staffing crisis that may force some facilities to close. At best, it will create stresses and resentments in the American nursing home industry that will hurt residents and communities.
He announced it yesterday. While the rest of the world was horrified by what is likely the most damaging international development of the generation, Joe Biden prattled on about Republican governors and booster shots and cracking down on nursing home workers.
As a distraction, it was a failure.
As policy, it was even worse.
Here’s the background: Something like half of America’s nursing home workers are vaccinated against covid. Joe Biden says that’s unacceptable. So he’s going to mandate they all be vaccinated. He’s going to require nursing homes to make sure their staffs are 100 percent vaccinated. He’s going to do that by withholding Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements from any facilities that aren’t.
That would instantly bankrupt those facilities.
Medicaid pays for the nursing home industry in America. Period. At an average of $7,500 per month for a room you share with somebody else, very few families can afford nursing home costs. So they use the very brief Medicare benefit, spend themselves into poverty, and then Medicaid picks it up.
Medicaid picks it all up. Medicaid is the god of nursing home cash flow.
And if you take away Medicaid, you ship grama home and turn off the lights, because you’re out of business.
That’s what Joe Biden threatened an industry with yesterday – instant, government-mandated insolvency.
Unless they strong arm their employees into getting the vaccine.
And who are those employees?
They are mostly poor people. They are disproportionately impoverished black women. Black people are four times more likely to be workers in American nursing homes than they are to be residents in nursing homes. In some parts of the country, Filipinos are also a large share of the workers. Across the country, women predominate in the nursing home workforce, with the largest share of those being single mothers.
That’s who Joe Biden is screwing.
That’s who Joe Biden is disrespecting.
He is telling them that he is going to make this health care decision for them. They are going to take an injection into their bodies because he said so, and if they don’t, he is going to get them fired.
Impoverished black, single mothers.
People who have very hard jobs and very small paychecks. People who have often been pushed into this field by mandatory welfare-to-work programs that train them to be CNAs and patient-care specialists. People who look after folks whose own families won’t look after them.
People who have toiled through almost two years of the covid pandemic, literally on the front line, heroically facing the highest risk and receiving the lowest pay. People who have shown their commitment and compassion – and their crucial worth – by coming in day after day, at risk to themselves and their families.
That’s who Joe Biden is walking on.
Why don’t more of these workers get vaccinated?
That’s their business. They are Americans. Their body is their choice.
And given the heritage of the lion’s share of them – African-American – the natural suspicion of and reluctance to engage with the medical establishment is neither surprising nor irrational. Google the words “Tuskegee” and “syphilis” and then go lecture a black person about getting shots. See how that goes.
It is wrong for the president of the United States to declare war on these people and their right to make their own medical decisions. These workers are Americans, they are doing an extremely difficult and important work, they have served honorably and unflinchingly through this pandemic. And to now treat them like children, ordering them to get a shot, is simply wrong.
And they’re not going to take it.
Nursing homes will get to 100% vaccination rates because the half of their workers who are unvaccinated are going to quit. Americans have dignity, and they don’t tolerate dictates, especially for paychecks which don’t truly reflect the work they do.
Joe Biden’s decree will take already understaffed American nursing homes and push out a quarter to a third of their workforce. And that will create a crisis in nursing homes all across this country. Literally. It will shut down many homes and create intolerable stresses in others.
And residents will be caught in the middle.
Just like the people of Afghanistan.
Innocent people devastated by a Joe Biden blunder.
Finally, all this pain will be caused by a dictate that is ultimately unnecessary. Because, while there are low rates of vaccination among nursing home workers, there are high rates of vaccination among nursing home residents.
The people Biden is trying to protect are already protected.
The residents’ vaccinations, with some simple screening of employees and segregation of infected individuals, will provide as much statistical protection to residents as a completely vaccinated workforce.
Joe Biden is trying to distract us from the tragedy he created in Afghanistan.
Unfortunately, he is doing so by setting up another tragedy here at home.
Must be getting advice from Cuomo
This will turn out every bit as well as Afghanistan. After all, if 10 or 15% of the nursing staff refuse to be vaccinated, everyone knows how super easy it is to hire trained elder care nurses.
Seniors are a great threat to Communists. They remember when this was a land of the free and what it meant to fight oppression. Communists what the old folks gone ASAP.
Much easier to educate youngsters than to try and re-educate seniors.
He has no such power.
If you Kill off the Nursing home residents and the caretakers, you SAVED SOCIAL SECURITY
I recently saw an article that gave a large percentage of health care workers who have not been vaccinated. I don’t remember the number. Does anyone know??
Well, Cuomo’s gone, somebody needs to pick up the slack.
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First, none of these “disasters” are that. They are planned. And, if you don’t like them that indicates that you are a loyal American and might, might, just not be a liberal.
That is why MSM and most of the regime support BeijingBiden’s moves.
Second, at least five blue state guv’nas murdered elderly by forcing infected others into ill-equipped homes — using their executive powers. BB’s effort to deliberately destroy this industry is cover. Like Hillary’s destruction of her server to provide cover for CCP bribes to ClintonFoundaton.
All of these messes are in the playbook.
While I believe you correct, he can decree it and then nursing homes are in a bad spot while waiting for it to be struck down. See the eviction moratorium.
Now, especially for the eviction moratorium, there needs to be the option of civil suits against anyone responsible for that, since it was already declared unlawful, they therefore broke the law and should be held responsible.
This article is accurate and sums up the situation well. Nursing assistants in nursing homes have tough jobs and could make just about as much if not more working fast food. They are already in short supply, NH’s are always hiring because they have significant turnover. IF this goes through it will indeed destroy a major arm of the healthcare industry. Unbelievable.
My wife is an RN, nurses are choosing to leave the field in droves due to medical institutions forcing the Covid “vaccine” on them. Many Doctors are moving out of the hospital system as well, for the same reason, though they can’t share that information publicly because they will lose their license if they do.
These are not unintelligent people.
The only reason I can think of for this craziness is to create/exasperate a staffing issue in the healthcare industry.
I don’t know what the end goal might be.
Who will stop him?
The Democrats in the House won't. They want him in power.
They love dictatorial power.
The only people who can impeach him are the House of Representatives. It is almost split, but the Democrats have shown a mafia-like ability to keep discipline in the ranks.
My mother-in-law passed away 7/30 and she was in a Medicare bed. At 96, she finally succumbed to dementia. The staff was wonderful and loving. My personal observation was that outside of the admin, doctors, and nurses, the remainder of staff were blacks. Are they going to trust the vaccine?
You are 100% correct. This is ALL planned. Biden is simply the idiot face of it all.
Chaos and destruction in America.
Just what multiple international and domestic players want.
Nursing homes run on medicaid, not social security. Read the article.
Those nurses better make those people fire them
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