📋 AARP Fights Effort to Delay Nursing Home Standards (AARP Article/Advocacy)

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FROM THE ARTICLE:

AARP Pushes Back on Effort to Delay New Federal Nursing Home Staffing Standards to 2035.

Rule offers dignity and safety to our most vulnerable Americans.

By Natalie Missakian and Nancy Kerr, AARP. Published May 14, 2025.

A plan to delay long-overdue minimum nursing home standards would cost lives and delay important protections needed for people living in nursing homes.

In a May 13 letter to the U.S. House Committee on Energy & Commerce, AARP noted deep concerns about a proposed delay to these standards, which would require an increase in staff at nursing homes and the presence of a registered nurse on-site at all times. The standards are set to take effect in stages starting in 2026, but this plan would delay them until 2035. Republican lawmakers are seeking cuts across federal programs to offset President Trump’s massive tax bill, which would extend and add to tax breaks.

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The new standards will also make our Medicare deductibles (Part A) and Medicare insurance premiums go up - same with Medigap plans.  

Our taxes (state and federal) too since many of these institutions are paid by Medicaid.  

Nursing Homes especially those housing long term care beneficiaries are struggling too with the cost of inflation - food, labor, insurance cost, unemployment insurance for their workers and workman’s comp which is very expensive for care personnel  and other cost.  

Medicaid pays them a very low rate - as differing from the reimbursement rate that is paid for those in the ACA Expanded Medicaid program - you know those low income abled bodied childless that are covered under the ACA Expanded Medicaid program.  

Do you even know what the standards are now? BTW, it is state’s that have direct oversite over nursing homes - they inspect them, they investigate any allegations, if there are deficiencies, they fine them  or take away their license which issued by the state.  Seems we have plenty of checks and balances with the state roles.

Just my take on the situation -