Biden Just Rolled a Live Grenade Into Nursing Homes Across America
President Joe Biden recently announced that all nursing home employees must be vaccinated against COVID-19. Failure to comply could result in nursing facilities losing Medicare and Medicaid funding.This vaccine mandate will exacerbate the shortage of nursing home workers, lead to the shutting down of many long-term care facilities and have severe adverse effects on America’s frail and elderly citizens.
The United States has an aging population. As baby boomers age, demand for health care services for seniors, including long-term care, is expected to grow.
Also, an increase in life expectancy over time means that there will be more seniors relying on the American health care system in the years to come. Therefore, a robust health care workforce is essential to meet the rising demand for services for America’s seniors.
For years, policy experts have discussed various aspects of the health care workforce. Even before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, there were concerns regarding the shortage of health care professionals such as doctors and nurses in the United States.
In the long-term care sector, the workforce shortage is much more significant. The coronavirus pandemic has intensified this shortage.
In the United States, people have the right to make their own decisions about their health care. Nursing home employees must not be forced to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
At a time when nursing homes are facing staffing challenges, President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate will add to the problem. When compelled to choose between personal freedom and their jobs, many nursing home employees may resign from their positions because they do not wish to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
In Wisconsin, nursing homes have been suffering from worker shortages for years. A 2018 study revealed there were 16,500 vacant caregiver positions in long-term and residential facilities in the state. By 2020, the number had increased to 20,655.
Biden’s vaccine mandate will deepen the pre-existing workforce challenges, turn the situation into a full-fledged crisis and crush nursing homes’ ability to hire workers to care for their residents.
To advance his administration’s agenda of vaccinating all Americans by snatching away people’s freedom to choose, Joe Biden is using taxpayer-funded programs as a threatening tool.
Medicaid, a public health insurance program for low-income individuals, is the primary payer for long-term care services in America. Medicare, too, is paid for by hard-working Americans. If facilities lose Medicaid and Medicare funding for failure to comply with Biden’s vaccine mandate, then the real victims would be elderly nursing home residents.
Comments (17)
The Jab Mandate is an attempt by his Control Left Puppeteers to divert attention from His failings by pitting Murkuns against ONE ANOTHER rather than the VIRUS.
E.G. - His claim of "Protecting the vaccinated from the unvaccinated" isn't Reality-Based & it's Meant to be Divisive.
One's Jab is Supposed to PROTECT one from Covid -
NOT make one VULNERABLE to one's UnJabbed friends, family & co-workers ...
So, Y'all Control Left Puppeteers - How's that MANDATORY Jab thing Workin' Out?
Why make a fuss, just get vaccinated, not rocket science.
I would refuse to allow any carer to enter my parents home when they were alive if not vaccinated.
Would you let an unlicensed taxi driver take you anywhere? Of course not, even Uber state all driver must have a driving license, I see no difference.
Exactly.
That policy could be - and Has Been - established by the management of Long Term Health Care Facilities.
Members of my family were employed in a nursing home decades ago & were Required to get the annual Flu Vax as a condition of employment - Residents were also vaxed
Presumably, this allayed valid concerns of residents & their families such as you describe.
Presumably Also -
Some people are opposed to vaxing on, say, Religious grounds & those people could opt for a Religious affiliated facility that Did NOT Require vaxing -
And No Authoritarian Federal Gov't COMPELLED such facilities to Do Vaxing by withholding Medicare/Medicaid Funding.
Sensible seeing as those in care homes are the most susceptible to any virus and dying
Why make a fuss, just get vaccinated, not rocket science.
There is no excuse for refusing a safe and valid vaccine other than a medical reason, and those people should not be allowed to work with the vulnerable.
This is all about pathetic people trying to claim a vaccine that visibly saves lives goes against their human rights, without any concern for the rights of vulnerable people.
I repeat, there is no valid reason to refuse a vaccine that has a proven record of saving lives, reducing infections and has an almost zero serious illness associated with it.
You really need to think things through before posting hey Mic?
So religious groups only ban Covid vaccines according to Mic, which means they have no real religious aspect to ban the covid vaccine.
Some people
Gaslighting
Or
I am against forcing an injection on people against their wills. They have a free will and are capable of making their own minds on whether they get vaccinated or not.
work with the most vulnerable, or get a different job elsewhere. It's really a simple choice.
The elderly residents have rights too.
Try this ...
Thus, according to that fountain of knowledge- the Media-- Amerika will be at it's weakest
On 11/23/21....if you don't know Y....
...you must not be watching enough TV.
Btw.) )...if the Cargo ship crisis was REAL...the Natl. Guard would have got involved by now.