There’s an old adage that goes something like this: It’s hard to remember that your objective was to drain the ditch when you are up to your waist in alligators.
Giving Trump a chance
By
John O'Connor
Nov 14, 2016
It’s interesting to see how this sector has generally responded to Donald Trump’s recent presidential victory. In some quarters, demonstrators have taken to the streets. Others are predicting...
The hell with this guy
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 20, 2017
Speaking at the same Mandalay Bay complex in Las Vegas from which a “madman” committed the deadliest mass shooting by a single person in U.S. history just two weeks earlier, American Health...
CLASS Act to survive, even if healthcare reform doesn’t
By
Liza Berger
Jan 21, 2010
Larry Minnix sounded weary but determined. The CLASS Act may become a casualty of healthcare reform, but it is not going away, the head of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging assured...
The real reason why the Supreme Court will trounce Obamacare
By
John O'Connor
Mar 30, 2012
I’m not sure why so much hand wringing is taking place over the Supreme Court’s future decision about Obamacare. For as they like to say in Chicago, the fix is in.
Triple threat: One day’s reports fuel chest-thumping, angst
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 25, 2012
Monday was a remarkable day, even by Washington spinmeister standards. In fact, we here at McKnight’s had to look two times — nay, three — to make sure we had seen correctly.
Voters give providers something to worry about
By
John O'Connor
Jun 08, 2012
GOP and Democratic strategists were watching the Wisconsin governorship recall race earlier this week as a possible harbinger of this fall’s presidential election. But that’s a shortsighted...
Why the likely demise of LTC insurance isn’t all bad
By
John O'Connor
Jun 22, 2012
Two decades ago, private long-term care insurance was seen as a can’t-miss option for funding future nursing home costs. But like many of the people who purchased policies back then, the product...
Will governors ride to providers’ rescue?
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 03, 2017
Now that the U.S. Senate has apparently decided to make healthcare somebody else’s problem, I suggest keeping an eye on another pack of politicians: the governors.
There’s no place like the county nursing home
By
Elizabeth Newman
May 16, 2013
Whether you are an employee, resident, citizen or member of another group, you can learn from the lessons I’ve learned while exhaustively investigating a story about running and saving county nursing...