MedCity News : declared in The nation's acute shortage of home health aides is jeopardizing care for vulnerable older adults

At the same time, wages for nursing assistants, home health aides and personal care aides have stagnated, making recruitment difficult. Acute shortages of home health aides and nursing assistants are cropping up across the country, threatening care for people with serious disabilities and vulnerable older adults. After the recession of 2008-09, positions in Medicaid-funded home health agencies, nursing homes and community service agencies were relatively easy to fill for several years. Rising demand, stagnant wagesFor years, experts have predicted that demand for services from a rapidly aging population would outstrip the capacity of the "direct care" workforce: personal care aides, home health aides and nursing assistants. One of seven caregiving positions in Wisconsin nursing homes and group homes remained unfilled, one survey discovered; 70 percent of administrators reported a lack of qualified job applicants.

Plan to give health care to every Californian moves forward

"California can't afford a single-payer health care system," said Charles Bacchi, president and CEO of the California Association of Health Plans. California health care expenditures last year totaled more than $367 billion, according to the Center for Health Policy Research at University of California, Los Angeles. California lawmakers pushed forward Wednesday with a proposal that would substantially remake the health care system of the nation's most populous state by replacing insurance companies with government-funded health care for everyone. The idea known as single-payer health care has long been popular on the left and is getting a new look in California as President Donald Trump looks to replace former President Barack Obama's health care law. The idea to increase the government's role in health care comes as Trump and congressional Republicans look to reduce it.


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