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Electronic Visit Verification Surveils Homecare Workers and Clients

Jun 6, 2022 Miriam Shestack

Every day, in millions of homes around America, homecare workers integrate into their clients’ daily routines, helping them move from bed to wheelchair in the morning, or make dinner in the evening. Homecare enables seniors and people with disabilities to live in the community. Despite steep and growing demand for homecare services and low wages […]

It’s Time to Repeal Work Requirements

Mar 16, 2021 Andre Manuel

The Biden Administration recently moved to remove work requirements from the Medicaid Program, ensuring that low-income Americans have health insurance whether or not they work. This welcome change is a recognition of the fact that work requirements unfairly punish people living in poverty and are out of sync with workers’ needs in the modern economy. […]

February 12, 2021
News & Commentary

Rund Khayyat

The Biden administration is notifying states today that they may no longer require Medicaid recipients to work as a condition of enrollment in the low-income health care program. The move will help dismantle a contentious Trump-era policy that threatened coverage for thousands of Americans and drew rebuke from Democrats. The Trump administration in 2018 had […]

January 29, 2021
News & Commentary

Rund Khayyat

President Biden issued an Executive Order Thursday to make it easier for Americans, and particularly those who rely on work-provided benefits, to access health insurance during the pandemic. The order will reopen the federal Obamacare marketplace and create a special enrollment period from Feb. 15 to May 15, offering a healthcare option to Americans who’ve […]

August 6, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

As unemployment benefits declined this week, lawmakers have remained at an impasse over the contents of Congress’s upcoming relief bill. Republicans thus far have offered to extend expanded unemployment benefits at a reduced $400 per week and have proposed around $200 million in aid to state and local governments. Sensing the upper hand, Democrats have […]

July 31, 2019
News & Commentary

Owen Senders

On Monday, U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg blocked a New Hampshire rule that would have required that state’s low-income residents to complete 100 hours a month of work, school, job training or volunteering in order to obtain health coverage under Medicaid. Judge Boasberg’s ruling marks the third time he has struck down Medicaid work […]

July 5, 2019
News & Commentary

Lolita DePalma

Today, the Trump administration’s rule barring Medicaid-funded home health aides from deducting union dues from their paychecks goes into effect. While these workers can still pay their union dues through alternative methods, the rule will place an administrative burden on both unions and their members. April Verrett, president of SEIU Local 2015 said, “When you […]

June 2, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Cai Shuang Chen, a delivery worker in New York, won $327,738 in a wage theft case in September 2017. However, Chen is unable to collect this money under New York state law, as the restaurant he worked for changed its name and thus technically no longer exists. In reality, the restaurant maintained most of its […]

May 27, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

The Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule that will prevent independent provider (IP) homecare workers paid by Medicaid from deducting union dues from their paychecks. SEIU, which represents around 500,000 homecare workers across the country, announced that it will challenge the new rule in court; and five state attorneys general are suing as well, […]

Hypocrisy on Agency Fees: Why the CMS Home Care Rule is Arbitrary and Capricious

Jul 13, 2018 Benjamin Sachs

In Janus, the Supreme Court held that agency fees amount to compelled speech that violates the First Amendment. As I’ve explained, the underlying premise of this theory is that agency fees are employees’ money that employees pay to a union. Because the fees belong to employees in the first place – because they come out of […]

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