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WaPo has more details on the infra plan. 20% of the plan (400 billion) is the 'care economy'

Posted by ty97 Mar 31 '21, 07:27

The plan expands access to home- or community-based care for seniors and people with disabilities. It would extend a Medicaid program, Money Follows the Person, to move elderly nursing homes residents out of nursing homes and back into their own homes or into the care of loved ones.
Biden also calls for improving working conditions, including higher wages and more benefits, for caretakers, who are disproportionately women of color and who have largely stayed on the job during the coronavirus pandemic.

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That doesn't really feel like infra to me?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/03/31/what-is-in-biden-infrastructure-plan/ (www.washingtonpost.com)

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It's so needed, but it'll get cut for sure. Or ruled not applicable like the minimum wage increase was. -- (edited) - Inigo Mar 31, 08:06
If I were emperor I'd put those in labor and healthcare bills, but maybe the care restructuring affects how many facility rooms need to be built. -- nm - Max Mar 31, 07:38 2
- It's good that they are doing this, I am just surprised to see it be 20% of the infra bill. Though I guess it's not Biden calling it an infra bill. - ty97 Mar 31, 07:40 1
  - That plan makes me feel like the Biden's administration watched "Dave" just before naming it. -- nm - Inigo Mar 31, 08:10
Thank you for posting this, seriously. -- nm - crash davis Mar 31, 07:34
It's universal health care in disguise!!! -- nm - Mop Mar 31, 07:29 1
- we could only be so lucky -- nm - Pippy Mar 31, 08:05

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