A half-decade ago, the Obama administration, in apparent defiance of federal statutes, issued a rule authorizing states to deduct union dues from home care providers whose income is partly or fully Medicaid-derived. The experiment now has ended. Yesterday, May 2, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule to protect non-joining individual providers from being forced to support unionism. Public-sector unions have generated an extra $200 million a year in this way. Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Foundation, calls the reversal “an encouraging action toward stopping union bosses from unlawfully using public payment systems to intercept tax dollars intended for providers caring for those in need.” The rule is set to take effect on or about July 5.
Union Corruption Update examined this issue at length last year. On July 12, HHS posted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to bar states … Read More ➡ “HHS Finalizes Rule Barring Union Medicaid Dues-Skimming”
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