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Trump admin to dump Obama-era rules allowing unions to siphon - Medicaid money.

Posted: Jul 11th, 2018 - 4:08 am

The Trump administration announced Tuesday it planned to end what it suggested was an illegal Obama-era rule allowing unions to Federal law generally prohibits states from skimming money from Medicaid payments bound for independent in-home personal care workers. But in 2014, the Obama administration created an exception, saying that states could divert some of that Medicaid money to unions, on the theory that these workers effectively were public-sector employees.

Eleven left-leaning states have used that provision to raise more than $200 million a year for unions by taking it from health workers who often didn't even realize it, according to top GOP officials......

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Trump admin to dump Obama-era rules allowing unions to siphon - Medicaid money. (Views: 407, 2018-07-11, 4:08 am)
- The tentacles of the unions is amazing. Even if you don't want - your money going to them... (Views: 241, 2018-07-11, 4:09 am)
  - Unions fleecing Medicaid again. Just figured out another way to - launder it from the taxpayer while (Views: 235, 2018-07-11, 8:05 am)
    - I read last year alone it was $200 million! I was absolutey - appalled by this. The practice has (Views: 230, 2018-07-11, 2:26 pm)
- $45 Billion wasted in redundant federal programs: GAO - (another related article) from 2014. (Views: 255, 2018-07-11, 4:12 am)
- Good, this rule forced family members who looked after old, - infirm/disabled family to join a union (Views: 238, 2018-07-11, 4:15 am)
  - Yes, basically if you accepted Medicaid payments whether - you want ed to be or not you were a (Views: 218, 2018-07-11, 8:11 am)
- Government unions need to go. They exist only because of - an EO, not passed by law. (Views: 220, 2018-07-11, 4:16 am)
- Now here's the actual document and - proposal. (Views: 250, 2018-07-11, 7:40 am)
- In Michigan the State allowed the SEIU to declare personal - home healthcare workers as (Views: 178, 2018-07-11, 7:54 am)
  - Then like this, we'll wait and see. Michigan - was turned into a right to work (Views: 226, 2018-07-11, 8:32 am)