Category Politics and Regulation

Caregiving, Health, Politics and Regulation

Obamacare Will Make The Elderly Will Pay More For In-Home Care

Summary The answer is simple: your parents will have to pay more for in-home care in order to pay for other people’s health insurance as a result of the new Nationalized Health Care program that is going through Congress right…

Tim Colling
November 7, 2009

Caregiving, Legal, Politics and Regulation

REAL Health Care Reform: Allow In-Home Caregivers To Give Medications

Paid caregivers should be allowed to perform the same medication tasks in a home care setting that family members are allowed to perform. Currently they are not allowed to do so, but that should be changed. Health care reform can take place in big, sweeping movements or in small but sensible ways. This is one of those small but helpful steps.

Tim Colling
July 23, 2009