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In reply to the discussion: Can we try to avoid strawmanning? [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)Medicare is a cash-cow for for-profit "health" "care" If we hope to PRESERVE Medicare that fact MUST be dealt with.
Here is Dr. Joshua Freeman, Chair of Family Practice and ACTIVE member of Physicians for a National Health Program on this subject:
http://medicinesocialjustice.blogspot.com/
In elder care in particular there are some very fancy 6-figure incomes, in some situations multiple 6-figure incomes even in LOW-END care facilities, 6-figure incomes built on top of what Medicare brings in, while direct care staffing is held down to absolutely marginal levels and benefits and wages suppressed amongst those under RN or MSW (e.g. CNAs, CMAs, Housekeeping, Maintenance - i.e. the positions without which the 6-figure people would have to CLOSE THE DOORS).
With all of the superPAC money out there, much of it coming from some of the biggest for-profit enterprises of all "health" "care", all of us need to be prepared to analyze all actors on this issue rationally.