Posted on 05/27/2020 5:10:04 AM PDT by God luvs America
As Governor Andrew Cuomo faced a spirited challenge in his bid to win New York’s 2018 Democratic primary, his political apparatus got a last-minute boost: a powerful healthcare industry group suddenly poured more than $1m into a Democratic committee backing his campaign.
Less than two years after that flood of cash from the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA), Cuomo signed legislation last month quietly shielding hospital and nursing home executives from the threat of lawsuits stemming from the coronavirus outbreak. The provision, inserted into an annual budget bill by Cuomo’s aides, created one of the nation’s most explicit immunity protections for healthcare industry officials, according to legal experts.
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is it not clear why the Cuomo murderers FORCED
the sick into healthy nursing homes?
“I’ll take, ‘he did it for the money, again’, Alex.
Doesn’t necessarily make it legal.
Not a fan of nursing home execs, but if they are forced into taking contagious patients, they shouldn’t be on the hook whether they donated or not.
Kind of surprised Andy C’s secretary hasn’t dug up an email saying Andy had insisted everything be done by the book.
I’m not too sure how much credence to give to this story coming from that Far-Right-Wing-Rag, the Guardian!
/Sarc
(if the Guardian has turned against him, Cuomo needs to start sweating!)
Human decency says they should have opposed it and complained, but you’re right that they were compelled to.
You have a legitimate point, yet il duce cuomo has a history of this:
ALBANY — New York State’s economic development agency created a new position last June, and then found a candidate to fill it: a young man named Willard Younger, who had just graduated from Colgate University with a degree in classics and religion. He became a special projects associate, at a salary of $45,000 a year, according to state personnel records.
His father, Stephen P. Younger, is a lawyer and power broker in legal circles who was a member of one of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s transition teams. He has also donated $26,000 to Mr. Cuomo’s campaigns over the years, disclosure records show.
This isn’t news. It’s been known about for weeks, though the legislature is trying to say that it didn’t know the provision was in there.
The interesting questions are why report on it now, and why in the Guardian.
The scumbag made sure he and they wouldn’t be held responsible before they killed. Does immunity cover these scumbags after they leave thier position in government and business?
FOLLOW THE MONEY. CUOMO IS PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF THOUSANDS OF NURSING HOME PATIENTS. WHERE IS THE NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL?
FWIW, I am all for the civil liability protection, but not just for nursing homes. Liability protection for business wasn’t passed, however. Criminal liability protection for nursing homes is also in the legislation. I do not see a good reason for that. And the budget didn’t pass until AFTER Cuomo’s March 25 directive ordering WuFlu patients back despite Fedzilla’s relaxation of regs to allow nursing homes the ability to refuse.
This whole thing reeks of corruption.
And for anyone who wants to dig into the subject, I suggest Steuben County in Upstate. Small scale, but plenty that smells.
Wow.
What a find!
Thanks for posting this.
Once again, the British press doing the job that our sycophant press just refuses to do.
Where is our AG? Well, when she’s not protecting Cuomo’s cronies, she’s going after Trump.
The question is why, especially if you’re familiar with this rag.
Quid pro Cuomo?
“Nice nursing home you have there...”
'The nursing home industry is one of the lobbying world’s quiet powerhouses. The state actions to protect the industry came after it spent tens of millions of dollars in lobbying and other advocacy per year, according to a POLITICO review of state and federal records. At the federal level, the industry has spent more than $4 million on lobbying over the past year, employing more than a dozen full-time lobbyists and drawing on an army of contractors including Brian Ballard, former lobbyist for President Donald Trump, and ex-Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a former Republican National Committee chairman.
In early April, nursing home giant Life Care Centers of America — the multi-state chain whose facility in Kirkland, Washington, was the nation’s first epicenter of coronavirus — hired a team of four former aides to ex-Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who was close with Senate leadership, to lobby on Covid-19 issues.
Industry advocates, including the American Health Care Association, which represents nursing homes, argue it would be disastrous for care facilities to be held liable for the deaths of elderly residents, who are far more vulnerable to coronavirus than the rest of the population. They also contend nursing homes have been forced to fight the virus while facing shortages of critical protective gear and testing capabilities because of flawed federal policies over which they have no control. They are also adapting to new federal regulations on the fly.
But lawyers and victims’ advocates point to reports of horrifying neglect and egregious misjudgments by nursing homes across the country that they allege contributed to the deaths of residents, and said that, in many states with weak regulations, the threat of a lawsuit represents a crucial protection for the most vulnerable people.'
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