Unsafe staffing levels and turnover are major problems for the 1.3 million people who live in nursing homes. The Biden administration’s federal rule setting minimum safe standards for staffing would save 13,000 lives a year. The rules will be phased in over the next years. They require a registered nurse to be on site 24 hours
Emil Bove, the No. 2 official at the Justice Department, signed a request to drop corruption charges against New York’s mayor, Eric Adams, after at least seven prosecutors resigned in protest of the move. The lead prosecutor on Adams’s investigation wrote in his resignation letter to Bove: “There is a tradition in public service of resigning in
South Carolina’s unpopular Senate Bill 244, the “Insurance Welfare Act,” is being framed as a necessary reform to lower insurance premiums and supposedly curb frivolous lawsuits. In reality, it’s a blatant power grab by the insurance industry that shifts financial burdens onto accident victims, policyholders, and small businesses while allowing insurance companies to profit even
House Republicans released their initial budget plan. It includes deep cuts to Medicaid. Meanwhile, Trump plans to give Elon Musk $400 million for untested armored vehicles from Tesla. Nursing homes in New York will be forced to close their doors without an increase in Medicaid funding, a dire warning as Trump freezes federal funds and plan
In a weird and graphic speech on the House floor, Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican, accused her former fiancé and three other men of having drugged and raped her and other women. Her former fiancé has denied the accusations. Mace also accused South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, a potential GOP rival for governor in
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