Friday, September 24, 2010

Sheep in Motion

Baaahhh. A new crisis has been found. A couple of days ago it was reported that some (210) ex-felons had jobs providing home health care for the elderly. There are 380,000 home health care providers in California, hardly a large number. The Governor is calling on the legislature to prohibit ex-felons from being in-home health care providers. It is a tempest in a tea pot and wrong.

I have a relative who is an ex-felon, hasn't been in jail in 25 years. He was the health care provider for his mother and he did a damn fine job. Oh, by the way, he wasn't paid by the state; but, could have been. Many times people have their children be the provider and some people have children that are ex-felons.

SEIU, the union for home health care providers, is supporting the governor. Why? What is behind all of the deception? This is about forcing requirements on home health care providers that will make it so only companies with lots of insurance can provide health care and then making the companies provide benefits and other things to the employees. It is about making home health care the new small business of tomorrow and then taxing it like mad.

We are looking at a growing elderly population. The baby boomers will become our next big industry, taking care of them. Oh yeah and they have money and they have houses that are paid off. If one bothers to go back to my old posts one will see that I discussed this long ago, I talked about large houses becoming mini-home health care businesses. Ain't nothing changed.

Where are the large houses other than in wealthy areas, well, they are in the suburbs. Ask yourself why we were building these six room houses when people are not having kids as much.