The Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act was passed by
the House Judiciary Committee in July, moving it one step closer to
becoming law. This bill prohibits the signing of an arbitration
agreement as the only method of dispute resolution prior to nursing
home admission, restoring a citizen's right to seek justice in a law
court once they have been admitted to a facility. These pre-admission
agreements protect long-term care facilities from the consequences of
allowing abuse and neglect to occur on their premises. Agreements to
use arbitration to resolve a dispute between a resident and the nursing
home corporation are still allowed, as long as they are entered into voluntarily and are made after the dispute has arisen.
Read the full bill or
follow its progress through Congress here.[
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A long time ago (in the late 60s I think). I read a book by John Gerassi called
The Boys of Boise, Furor, Vice and Folly in an American City.
Basically, it was a shocking journalistic reporting of how a city’s
fears can create a kind of mass paranoia. Boise, Idaho isn’t quite the
Wild West, but to this day it has a kind of ‘cowboy’ feeling about it.
In the 1960s, same-sex anything (other than drinking and football) was
something that just didn’t happen. You’d rather be a Red than Gay in
those days—long before “Brokeback Mountain”. The book chronicles what
happens when
Time magazine reports that Boise is a mecca for
homosexuals in America. The bottom line is that anyone and everyone was
a suspect, the City hired a Gestapo-type investigator, and
McCarthy-like prosecutions followed. If you want the details, get the
book. I am reminded of this because to my shock and dismay, I
read recently that child protection measures in the UK will be expanded
with the implementation in 2009 of the
Independent Safeguarding Authority, which will increase the number of adults to be vetted by the criminal justice system to 11 million.[
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I am against trying to ‘legislate’ or ‘regulate’ good behavior. I
don’t think people respond very well to rules that are ‘good for
them’—whether it is anti-smoking legislation, ‘dietary’ packaging, or
sanctions on putting condom machines in high schools. People will, at
best, comply, but the underlying problems and cognitive blindness
persists for decades (if not forever). The result is institutionalized
secrecy, hypocrisy, black markets and lack of transparency in
government and everyday life.[
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