Trump Halts Disability Dues Scheme: No More Union Dues Skimmed From Medicaid Checks

[Zorro!]

CHANGE: Admin Halts Disability Dues Scheme. “Regulation will no longer allow unions to take dues money from Medicaid checks.”

Thank you Donald Trump for shutting down this scam that should have occurred. Is two terms going to be enough time for Trump to fix all the obvious insider ripoffs?

Labor organizations will no longer be allowed to skim dues money from the checks of Medicaid patients under new rules adopted by the Trump administration.

The Department of Health and Human Services's Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services adopted a new regulation that will prohibit states from siphoning money from caregiver reimbursements to third parties. The rule takes direct aim at state policies enacted to enrich union coffers.

"State Medicaid programs are responsible for ensuring that taxpayer dollars are dedicated to providing healthcare services for low-income, vulnerable Americans and are not diverted in ways that do not comply with federal law," CMS Administrator Seema Verma said in a release. "This final rule is intended to ensure that providers receive their complete payment."​

These dirty bastards squeeze lemons for the Unions, the Unions squeeze their lemon back by supporting these bastards political campaigns, all funded by deductions from low-income and vulnerable Americans.

Remember this when these bastards are virtue signalling over what self-righteous little Socialists they all are.

THEY FOOL NO ONE!

 

[Claudette]

Good move.

 

[Zorro!]

Good move.

Yup!

Several dirty bastard states have used forced dues schemes to automatically deduct union fees from the reimbursement checks intended to pay for the care of disabled citizens. In many cases that money deducted for the greedy rich unions was taken from checks intended for family members who serve as full-time caregivers to their severely disabled relatives. Trump's new rule will prevent these dirty bastard states from doing this in the future.

 

[Rambunctious]

MAGA!!!!!

 

[Zorro!]

MAGA!!!!!

Labor organizations collected more than $50 million from home health aides over a five-year period following this despicable dues deduction scheme. CMS found that tens of millions of dollars continued to flow from disabled clients to unions despite the Harris ruling, thanks in part to an Obama administration rule that allowed state governments to direct payments to third parties. Of the 7,000 public comments filed to the agency in the wake of the proposal, one estimated that more than $1.4 billion has been redirected since 2000.

"We estimated that unions may currently collect as much as $71 million from such assignments," the regulation says. "We estimated that the amount of payments made to third parties on behalf of individual providers for the variety of benefits within the scope of this rulemaking could potentially be in excess of $100 million."

The new rule would still allow caregivers to voluntarily pay labor organizations if they choose to be represented. The key difference is that those payments will come from the caregiver directly, rather than an automatic withholding by state government.

 

[deanrd]

Insurance companies are the only insurance scams Republicans actually like.

1. Insurance companies pass on millions to Republicans in office.

2. Republicans in office get millions from insurance companies.

Two reasons Republican politicians love insurance companies.

 

[deanrd]

MAGA!!!!!

Labor organizations collected more than $50 million from home health aides over a five-year period following this despicable dues deduction scheme. CMS found that tens of millions of dollars continued to flow from disabled clients to unions despite the Harris ruling, thanks in part to an Obama administration rule that allowed state governments to direct payments to third parties. Of the 7,000 public comments filed to the agency in the wake of the proposal, one estimated that more than $1.4 billion has been redirected since 2000.

"We estimated that unions may currently collect as much as $71 million from such assignments," the regulation says. "We estimated that the amount of payments made to third parties on behalf of individual providers for the variety of benefits within the scope of this rulemaking could potentially be in excess of $100 million."

The new rule would still allow caregivers to voluntarily pay labor organizations if they choose to be represented. The key difference is that those payments will come from the caregiver directly, rather than an automatic withholding by state government.

How much do you think private jets cost? How many insurance policies does it take to own one private jet.

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I took on a corporate jet just a couple of weeks after that experience, flying from Philadelphia, where CIGNA is based, to its healthcare operations in Connecticut. And we were served — the CEO and I — lunch on gold-rimmed china, and we were given gold-plated flatware to eat it with. And we were sitting in a very luxurious leather chair, flying in a corporate jet that cost $5,000 an hour to operate, or just the jet fuel alone was $5,000.

Wendell Potter on “Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans”

wow, gold plated flatware.
How many insurance policies did they have to sell to have gold plated flatware and china?

And this is what Republicans are fighting for.

 

[Aba Incieni]

MAGA!!!!!

Labor organizations collected more than $50 million from home health aides over a five-year period following this despicable dues deduction scheme. CMS found that tens of millions of dollars continued to flow from disabled clients to unions despite the Harris ruling, thanks in part to an Obama administration rule that allowed state governments to direct payments to third parties. Of the 7,000 public comments filed to the agency in the wake of the proposal, one estimated that more than $1.4 billion has been redirected since 2000.

"We estimated that unions may currently collect as much as $71 million from such assignments," the regulation says. "We estimated that the amount of payments made to third parties on behalf of individual providers for the variety of benefits within the scope of this rulemaking could potentially be in excess of $100 million."

The new rule would still allow caregivers to voluntarily pay labor organizations if they choose to be represented. The key difference is that those payments will come from the caregiver directly, rather than an automatic withholding by state government.

How much do you think private jets cost? How many insurance policies does it take to own one private jet.

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I took on a corporate jet just a couple of weeks after that experience, flying from Philadelphia, where CIGNA is based, to its healthcare operations in Connecticut. And we were served — the CEO and I — lunch on gold-rimmed china, and we were given gold-plated flatware to eat it with. And we were sitting in a very luxurious leather chair, flying in a corporate jet that cost $5,000 an hour to operate, or just the jet fuel alone was $5,000.

Wendell Potter on “Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans”

wow, gold plated flatware.
How many insurance policies did they have to sell to have gold plated flatware and china?

And this is what Republicans are fighting for.

You were seated in one chair?

Sounds cozy.

 

[deanrd]

MAGA!!!!!

Labor organizations collected more than $50 million from home health aides over a five-year period following this despicable dues deduction scheme. CMS found that tens of millions of dollars continued to flow from disabled clients to unions despite the Harris ruling, thanks in part to an Obama administration rule that allowed state governments to direct payments to third parties. Of the 7,000 public comments filed to the agency in the wake of the proposal, one estimated that more than $1.4 billion has been redirected since 2000.

"We estimated that unions may currently collect as much as $71 million from such assignments," the regulation says. "We estimated that the amount of payments made to third parties on behalf of individual providers for the variety of benefits within the scope of this rulemaking could potentially be in excess of $100 million."

The new rule would still allow caregivers to voluntarily pay labor organizations if they choose to be represented. The key difference is that those payments will come from the caregiver directly, rather than an automatic withholding by state government.

How much do you think private jets cost? How many insurance policies does it take to own one private jet.

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I took on a corporate jet just a couple of weeks after that experience, flying from Philadelphia, where CIGNA is based, to its healthcare operations in Connecticut. And we were served — the CEO and I — lunch on gold-rimmed china, and we were given gold-plated flatware to eat it with. And we were sitting in a very luxurious leather chair, flying in a corporate jet that cost $5,000 an hour to operate, or just the jet fuel alone was $5,000.

Wendell Potter on “Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans”

wow, gold plated flatware.
How many insurance policies did they have to sell to have gold plated flatware and china?

And this is what Republicans are fighting for.

You were seated in one chair?

Sounds cozy.

That makes no sense. Or is this proof that right wingers on the USMB never, ever, read the links they scream that people won’t add?

 

[Meister]

MAGA!!!!!

Labor organizations collected more than $50 million from home health aides over a five-year period following this despicable dues deduction scheme. CMS found that tens of millions of dollars continued to flow from disabled clients to unions despite the Harris ruling, thanks in part to an Obama administration rule that allowed state governments to direct payments to third parties. Of the 7,000 public comments filed to the agency in the wake of the proposal, one estimated that more than $1.4 billion has been redirected since 2000.

"We estimated that unions may currently collect as much as $71 million from such assignments," the regulation says. "We estimated that the amount of payments made to third parties on behalf of individual providers for the variety of benefits within the scope of this rulemaking could potentially be in excess of $100 million."

The new rule would still allow caregivers to voluntarily pay labor organizations if they choose to be represented. The key difference is that those payments will come from the caregiver directly, rather than an automatic withholding by state government.

How much do you think private jets cost? How many insurance policies does it take to own one private jet.

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I took on a corporate jet just a couple of weeks after that experience, flying from Philadelphia, where CIGNA is based, to its healthcare operations in Connecticut. And we were served — the CEO and I — lunch on gold-rimmed china, and we were given gold-plated flatware to eat it with. And we were sitting in a very luxurious leather chair, flying in a corporate jet that cost $5,000 an hour to operate, or just the jet fuel alone was $5,000.

Wendell Potter on “Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans”

wow, gold plated flatware.
How many insurance policies did they have to sell to have gold plated flatware and china?

And this is what Republicans are fighting for.

Kinda reminds you of the elites flying by private jets to Global Climate Change seminars, huh?

I was looking for some threads and posts of yours that hammered them for doing it.
I'm still looking, I'm sure there are at least a dozen of them, dean.

 

[Zorro!]

MAGA!!!!!

Labor organizations collected more than $50 million from home health aides over a five-year period following this despicable dues deduction scheme. CMS found that tens of millions of dollars continued to flow from disabled clients to unions despite the Harris ruling, thanks in part to an Obama administration rule that allowed state governments to direct payments to third parties. Of the 7,000 public comments filed to the agency in the wake of the proposal, one estimated that more than $1.4 billion has been redirected since 2000.

"We estimated that unions may currently collect as much as $71 million from such assignments," the regulation says. "We estimated that the amount of payments made to third parties on behalf of individual providers for the variety of benefits within the scope of this rulemaking could potentially be in excess of $100 million."

The new rule would still allow caregivers to voluntarily pay labor organizations if they choose to be represented. The key difference is that those payments will come from the caregiver directly, rather than an automatic withholding by state government.

How much do you think private jets cost? How many insurance policies does it take to own one private jet.

-------------
I took on a corporate jet just a couple of weeks after that experience, flying from Philadelphia, where CIGNA is based, to its healthcare operations in Connecticut. And we were served — the CEO and I — lunch on gold-rimmed china, and we were given gold-plated flatware to eat it with. And we were sitting in a very luxurious leather chair, flying in a corporate jet that cost $5,000 an hour to operate, or just the jet fuel alone was $5,000.

Wendell Potter on “Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans”

wow, gold plated flatware.
How many insurance policies did they have to sell to have gold plated flatware and china?

And this is what Republicans are fighting for.

Kinda reminds you of the elites flying by private jets to Global Climate Change seminars, huh?

I was looking for some threads and posts of yours that hammered them for doing it.
I'm still looking, I'm sure there are at least a dozen of them, dean.

Labor watchdogs welcomed the new rule. The National Right to Work Foundation, which successfully argued Harris before the Supreme Court, said the regulation was a welcome development to preventing future coercive dues schemes. Foundation president Mark Mix called it "long overdue," adding that it would need to be vigilantly enforced to ensure unions do not attempt to continue deducting money from caregivers.

"This long-overdue rule closes the illegal loophole created by the Obama Administration that that has provided union officials with legal cover to siphon hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid funds into union political and lobbying activities," Mix said in a statement. "While the rule will still need to be robustly enforced, today's announcement is an encouraging action toward stopping union bosses from unlawfully using public payment systems to intercept tax dollars intended for providers caring for those in need."

The Freedom Foundation has also successfully challenged forced union dues schemes at the local level. The pro-free market think tank based out of Washington state said the rule will ensure that taxpayer dollars end up in the pockets of the disabled and their caregivers, rather than politically powerful interest groups.

 

[Meister]

MAGA!!!!!

Labor organizations collected more than $50 million from home health aides over a five-year period following this despicable dues deduction scheme. CMS found that tens of millions of dollars continued to flow from disabled clients to unions despite the Harris ruling, thanks in part to an Obama administration rule that allowed state governments to direct payments to third parties. Of the 7,000 public comments filed to the agency in the wake of the proposal, one estimated that more than $1.4 billion has been redirected since 2000.

"We estimated that unions may currently collect as much as $71 million from such assignments," the regulation says. "We estimated that the amount of payments made to third parties on behalf of individual providers for the variety of benefits within the scope of this rulemaking could potentially be in excess of $100 million."

The new rule would still allow caregivers to voluntarily pay labor organizations if they choose to be represented. The key difference is that those payments will come from the caregiver directly, rather than an automatic withholding by state government.

How much do you think private jets cost? How many insurance policies does it take to own one private jet.

-------------
I took on a corporate jet just a couple of weeks after that experience, flying from Philadelphia, where CIGNA is based, to its healthcare operations in Connecticut. And we were served — the CEO and I — lunch on gold-rimmed china, and we were given gold-plated flatware to eat it with. And we were sitting in a very luxurious leather chair, flying in a corporate jet that cost $5,000 an hour to operate, or just the jet fuel alone was $5,000.

Wendell Potter on “Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans”

wow, gold plated flatware.
How many insurance policies did they have to sell to have gold plated flatware and china?

And this is what Republicans are fighting for.

Kinda reminds you of the elites flying by private jets to Global Climate Change seminars, huh?

I was looking for some threads and posts of yours that hammered them for doing it.
I'm still looking, I'm sure there are at least a dozen of them, dean.

Labor watchdogs welcomed the new rule. The National Right to Work Foundation, which successfully argued Harris before the Supreme Court, said the regulation was a welcome development to preventing future coercive dues schemes. Foundation president Mark Mix called it "long overdue," adding that it would need to be vigilantly enforced to ensure unions do not attempt to continue deducting money from caregivers.

"This long-overdue rule closes the illegal loophole created by the Obama Administration that that has provided union officials with legal cover to siphon hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid funds into union political and lobbying activities," Mix said in a statement. "While the rule will still need to be robustly enforced, today's announcement is an encouraging action toward stopping union bosses from unlawfully using public payment systems to intercept tax dollars intended for providers caring for those in need."

The Freedom Foundation has also successfully challenged forced union dues schemes at the local level. The pro-free market think tank based out of Washington state said the rule will ensure that taxpayer dollars end up in the pockets of the disabled and their caregivers, rather than politically powerful interest groups.

This is real good for America. Obama was conniving when he did that...by paying back his union buddies.
scandalous

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Insurance companies are the only insurance scams Republicans actually like.

And yet it was your party who required everyone to have it without a single Republican vote and you fervently voted for and supported it, didn't you, Troll King?

 

[Zorro!]

MAGA!!!!!

Labor organizations collected more than $50 million from home health aides over a five-year period following this despicable dues deduction scheme. CMS found that tens of millions of dollars continued to flow from disabled clients to unions despite the Harris ruling, thanks in part to an Obama administration rule that allowed state governments to direct payments to third parties. Of the 7,000 public comments filed to the agency in the wake of the proposal, one estimated that more than $1.4 billion has been redirected since 2000.

"We estimated that unions may currently collect as much as $71 million from such assignments," the regulation says. "We estimated that the amount of payments made to third parties on behalf of individual providers for the variety of benefits within the scope of this rulemaking could potentially be in excess of $100 million."

The new rule would still allow caregivers to voluntarily pay labor organizations if they choose to be represented. The key difference is that those payments will come from the caregiver directly, rather than an automatic withholding by state government.

How much do you think private jets cost? How many insurance policies does it take to own one private jet.

-------------
I took on a corporate jet just a couple of weeks after that experience, flying from Philadelphia, where CIGNA is based, to its healthcare operations in Connecticut. And we were served — the CEO and I — lunch on gold-rimmed china, and we were given gold-plated flatware to eat it with. And we were sitting in a very luxurious leather chair, flying in a corporate jet that cost $5,000 an hour to operate, or just the jet fuel alone was $5,000.

Wendell Potter on “Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans”

wow, gold plated flatware.
How many insurance policies did they have to sell to have gold plated flatware and china?

And this is what Republicans are fighting for.

Kinda reminds you of the elites flying by private jets to Global Climate Change seminars, huh?

I was looking for some threads and posts of yours that hammered them for doing it.
I'm still looking, I'm sure there are at least a dozen of them, dean.

Labor watchdogs welcomed the new rule. The National Right to Work Foundation, which successfully argued Harris before the Supreme Court, said the regulation was a welcome development to preventing future coercive dues schemes. Foundation president Mark Mix called it "long overdue," adding that it would need to be vigilantly enforced to ensure unions do not attempt to continue deducting money from caregivers.

"This long-overdue rule closes the illegal loophole created by the Obama Administration that that has provided union officials with legal cover to siphon hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid funds into union political and lobbying activities," Mix said in a statement. "While the rule will still need to be robustly enforced, today's announcement is an encouraging action toward stopping union bosses from unlawfully using public payment systems to intercept tax dollars intended for providers caring for those in need."

The Freedom Foundation has also successfully challenged forced union dues schemes at the local level. The pro-free market think tank based out of Washington state said the rule will ensure that taxpayer dollars end up in the pockets of the disabled and their caregivers, rather than politically powerful interest groups.

This is real good for America. Obama was conniving when he did that...by paying back his union buddies.
scandalous

Yup!

"Repealing this illegal regulation is a major victory for caregivers and those who care about protecting Medicaid from being looted by special interests," Maxford Nelsen, the foundation’s director of labor policy, said in a statement.

Trey Kovacs, a labor expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said such schemes were only made possible by backroom deals negotiated by Rich unions and their political allies and "stealth organizing campaigns." In no case did Rich unions win exclusive representation rights with the support of more than half of caregivers. When federal courts began putting an end to Corrupt state schemes, many caregivers encountered obstacles and red tape when they tried to cut off dues payments, according to Kovacs.

"Rich Labor unions made it difficult for poor vulnerable homecare providers to cancel the state’s deduction of dues from their pay," he said. "This final rule finally ends dues skimming, ensuring Medicaid funds reach their statutorily required destination—to fund care for the elderly and disabled."

THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!

 

[JusticeHammer]

I notice deanrd ran.

 

[The Professor]

Insurance companies are the only insurance scams Republicans actually like.

And yet it was your party who required everyone to have it without a single Republican vote and you fervently voted for and supported it, didn't you, Troll King?

Brilliant! You nuked the guy!

As far as DEANRD is concerned, Touché, Pussy Cat

touche mr pussycat - Google Search

 

[Zorro!]

MAGA!!!!!

Labor organizations collected more than $50 million from home health aides over a five-year period following this despicable dues deduction scheme. CMS found that tens of millions of dollars continued to flow from disabled clients to unions despite the Harris ruling, thanks in part to an Obama administration rule that allowed state governments to direct payments to third parties. Of the 7,000 public comments filed to the agency in the wake of the proposal, one estimated that more than $1.4 billion has been redirected since 2000.

"We estimated that unions may currently collect as much as $71 million from such assignments," the regulation says. "We estimated that the amount of payments made to third parties on behalf of individual providers for the variety of benefits within the scope of this rulemaking could potentially be in excess of $100 million."

The new rule would still allow caregivers to voluntarily pay labor organizations if they choose to be represented. The key difference is that those payments will come from the caregiver directly, rather than an automatic withholding by state government.

How much do you think private jets cost? How many insurance policies does it take to own one private jet.

-------------
I took on a corporate jet just a couple of weeks after that experience, flying from Philadelphia, where CIGNA is based, to its healthcare operations in Connecticut. And we were served — the CEO and I — lunch on gold-rimmed china, and we were given gold-plated flatware to eat it with. And we were sitting in a very luxurious leather chair, flying in a corporate jet that cost $5,000 an hour to operate, or just the jet fuel alone was $5,000.

Wendell Potter on “Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans”

wow, gold plated flatware.
How many insurance policies did they have to sell to have gold plated flatware and china?

And this is what Republicans are fighting for.

Kinda reminds you of the elites flying by private jets to Global Climate Change seminars, huh?

I was looking for some threads and posts of yours that hammered them for doing it.
I'm still looking, I'm sure there are at least a dozen of them, dean.

HEH: Vox Media has shifted its hiring toward part-timers and contract workers since its staff unionized.Unexpectedly!

Fewer hours, fewer positions, loss of full-time benefits AND Union dues!

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Insurance companies are the only insurance scams Republicans actually like.

1. Insurance companies pass on millions to Republicans in office.

2. Republicans in office get millions from insurance companies.

Two reasons Republican politicians love insurance companies.

One word, Derp. Obamacare.

Stupid bastard, who's responsible for that?