Consumer Confidential: Why let nursing homes elude litigation?
Health care, tax reform and the debt ceiling probably will be among the highest-profile issues when Congress returns from a monthlong recess Sept. 5.
But Democratic lawmakers and consumer advocates already have served notice that they're also going to keep a spotlight on protecting people's right to sue nursing homes for neglect or abuse of elderly patients.
The Trump administration, through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, announced in June its intent to roll back legal rights for consumers put in place under the Obama administration.
Those rights include prohibiting any nursing home that receives federal funding _ which is most of them _ from
