The Care Shortage Gets an Immigration Bill
The Careworker Visa Act lands the same week Brookings counts 668,000 jobs lost to ICE surges and a Scottish care firm is liquidated by a visa ruling.
On June 9, Reps. Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania and Gabe Vasquez of New Mexico introduced the Careworker Visa Act, which would create a three-year work authorization for qualified childcare providers, eldercare workers, and in-home caregivers, with legal status for approved applicants. The framing number comes from the sponsors' own release: the United States is projected to have 4.6 million unfilled caregiving jobs by 2032. Source New Mexico reports the shortage hits Vasquez's state especially hard, and Houlahan, who introduced a caregiving data bill in May, is assembling a portfolio that treats care supply as immigration policy.
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Federal Auditors Put Numbers on Medicare Advantage Denials
An HHS inspector general report finds the largest Medicare Advantage plans denied rehab and other critical services at unusually high rates.
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Ohio's Caregiver Reversal Holds as Nevada Freezes New Licenses
Families caring for disabled Ohioans keep their Medicaid pay. Nevada tries a different instrument: a six-month freeze on new hospice and home-health licenses.
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The Case That Unpaid Care Is a Rights Violation
A Human Rights Research Center essay reframes 63 million unpaid American caregivers, most of them women, as a rights failure rather than private duty.