The signs offer quick cash for homes. But states want more oversight.
Ohio now requires wholesalers to disclose they may resell contracts below market value, joining 15 states cracking down on deals critics call predatory.
Seniors
‘Social Security is on the ballot’: Former Social Security chief warns Ohio retirees about Ramaswamy
Martin O’Malley brought Vivek Ramaswamy’s own record to Toledo, including his support for investing Social Security money in the stock market and his statement that privatization or partial privatization is a “reasonable conversation to have.”
Ramaswamy called market crash ‘medicine,’ ‘good thing’ as Ohio public pensions lost $32 billion
The Republican candidate for governor wrote that the 2022 market crash would “ultimately be a good thing for the country.” Elsewhere in the same book, he acknowledged a crash could hit middle-class and poor Americans harder while his own life remained “mostly the same.”
Poll finds voters favor US Senate candidates with plan for averting Social Security cut
Nearly three-quarters of swing-state voters back a new payroll tax on income above $184,500 to head off a 22% benefit cut hitting in 2032.
Ramaswamy wants Ohio pensions exposed to crypto. His own Bitcoin company just lost $523 million.
Ramaswamy's plan sets no limit on how much of Ohio's $284 billion pension assets could go into crypto.
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Republican cuts will decimate caregiving in America, report says
Caregivers who tend to the elderly, the very young and the disabled in many cases are severely underpaid.
These vulnerable Republicans have targeted Social Security
Millions of Social Security recipients say they would not survive if the program was cut.
Ohio nursing homes dumped residents at homeless shelters. Jon Husted helped make them harder to sue.
Husted has taken more than $1 million from the nursing home industry since co-sponsoring the 2002 law that shortened residents' window to sue.
House Republicans embrace group that wants to privatize Social Security
Policy experts say privatization would threaten the long-term solvency of the program.
Jon Husted helped nursing homes fight abuse and wrongful-death lawsuits, then took $1M from the industry
A 2002 bill Husted cosponsored cut nursing homes' lawsuit exposure and barred state inspection findings from court, as Medicaid cuts strain Ohio facilities.
Trump administration to kill Medicare Part D prescription subsidy program
Millions of subscribers could see their prescription costs and premiums go up in 2027 without the program, experts say.
For more than 100,000 Ohio Medicaid recipients, worries build about the future of home care
With federal Medicaid cuts taking effect Jan. 1, Ohio officials are citing fraud claims in home care programs that recipients and unpaid family caregivers say could push seniors into costlier nursing homes.
Deadly neglect lawsuits and fines follow Ohio nursing home chain
In courtrooms and Ohio Department of Health inspections, Arbors at Ohio facilities have repeatedly been accused of neglectful care with fatal outcomes. The chain has paid hundreds of thousands in regulatory penalties.
If Social Security isn’t fixed, average Ohioan will lose $487 a month, report estimates
AARP Ohio says 700,000 seniors could be pushed into poverty by 2032, as Sen. Jon Husted's office declined to comment and a balanced-budget amendment drew Democratic fire.
HVAC failure forces Green Springs nursing home evacuation
Ventilator-dependent and bariatric residents were transported to Bellevue Hospital after indoor temps hit the low-to-mid 90s, with 30-plus agencies responding.
After nursing home crises, states target private equity’s role
Connecticut's new law bans private equity from controlling daily care decisions in nursing homes, as $665 billion in Medicaid cuts could push more Americans into facilities.
Care for seniors is sucking wealth out of families — especially in Ohio
A Roosevelt Institute study shows long-term care costs force even wealthy families to spend down assets to Medicaid limits, while Trump's healthcare law threatens to cut another $150 billion from nursing home payments.
Ohio’s nursing homes are dumping patients at homeless shelters
Long-term care facilities in Ohio are increasingly discharging their residents to homeless shelters, according to federal inspection reports, resident advocates, and the industry itself.
122-unit senior housing development proposed for former Tiffin golf course
Wallick Communities has proposed The Ashford of Tiffin, a 122-unit affordable senior housing facility on the former Towne & Country Golf Course property, with a fall groundbreaking planned.
Ohio Department of Medicaid has yet to pay nursing homes up to $1 billion after court ruling
Four months after the Ohio Supreme Court ordered the state to pay nursing homes up to $1 billion in underpaid Medicaid funds, facilities have received nothing and may face tax bills on money they haven't been paid.
