Sadistic Trump Admin Rescinds Min Staffing Rules for Nursing Homes

[Prairie Gates]

4. Understand that these changes are requested by nursing home owners, including private equity

and investors who have taken giant stakes in the nursing home business. Unsatisfied with the massive profits they already draw down from nursing homes, they want to reduce the labor costs (for which they pay mostly minimum wage and slightly above) in order to pull even more profit from these places.

The Trump administration is doing the bidding of the owners and managers, who are those "nice" people you meet who go over the cost structure with you when you move your aging parent or loved one into one of these facilities. Through the smiles, those people are scraping for every last dime, even if it means that your parent is at greater risk of falling, of laying in their own fluids, of eating filthy food, of dying before their time.

Look into the way private equity has taken over the senior care industry. They're coming for every last dime.