Scott Walker Gives Wisconsin Nursing Homes a Virtual Green Light to Abuse Granny and Grandpa

http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12723

Submitted by mark karlin on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 11:10am.

Apparently, Scott Walker doesn't care much about stopping granny or grandpa from being abused in nursing homes.

BuzzFlash at Truthout is not kidding.

Walker recently signed the euphemistically named, "The Wisconsin Omnibus Tort Reform Act." Provisions in the law would prohibit lawyers from using state investigations of abuse in legal cases. According to Lu Dubose of the Washington Spectator, Walker is also protecting nursing homes from being criminally charged:

Incident reports have also been placed beyond the reach of the Wisconsin Department of Justice, which conducts criminal investigations and prosecutions of nursing homes and assisted living centers.

"This is payback time," Bremer Muggli said. "The governor is settling the score with trial lawyers who didn't support him. And he's taking care of his donors, the for-profit nursing home operators, especially the big ones like Kindred." (Kindred Healthcare is a Fortune 500 company that operates almost 700 health-care facilities across the United States.)

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