The Trump administration has lost a court battle that could have pushed our nation’s low-income elderly, disabled, and blind out of their own homes and into deathtrap nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic.
A California federal judge called the Trump rule that bars states from withholding part of the paychecks of some home healthcare workers for things like health insurance and voluntary union dues a “legal error.”
Judge Vince Chhabria found that the Trump rule appears “contrary to the overall purpose” of the Medicaid law. He noted that improving working conditions for home health workers, who have median hourly pay of $10.49, improves the quality of care that workers provide for Medicaid patients. Continue reading.