GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Nursing-home executives are intensifying their opposition to the Senate’s health-care overhaul, concerned that the proposed multibillion-dollar cuts to Medicaid would gravely wound the industry.
Before Senate Republicans postponed a vote on the legislation Tuesday [6-27-17], a conference call organized by the American Health Care Association drew nearly 800 participants. They were asked to contact their senators and representatives to discuss the bill’s potential impact, and to involve employees and family members of residents in the lobbying effort.
‘This is the biggest threat that the sector has faced in at least 20 or 25 years,’ said Mark Parkinson, the trade group’s president.
Nursing-home executives are intensifying their opposition to the Senate’s health-care overhaul, concerned that the proposed multibillion-dollar cuts to Medicaid would gravely wound the industry.
Before Senate Republicans postponed a vote on the legislation Tuesday, a conference call organized by the American Health Care Association drew nearly 800 participants. They were asked to contact their senators and representatives to discuss the bill’s potential impact, and to involve employees and family members of residents in the lobbying effort.
‘This is the biggest threat that the sector has faced in at least 20 or 25 years,’ said Mark Parkinson, the trade group’s president.”
-Ruth Simon, “Nursing-Home Leader Warns Senate Bill Is ‘Biggest Threat’ to Industry in 20 Years,” The Wall Street Journal online, June 27, 2017 05:30pm