Gina Raimondo in Jacobin Magazine


On Health Care: COVID: civil liability immunity for hospitals, nursing homes

On April 9, top officials from Rhode Island's nursing home lobbying groups sent a letter to Raimondo's office requesting immunity from civil liability if their residents faced injury or death from COVID-19. One day later, the governor's office issued an executive order granting the lobbyists what they had asked for: hospitals and nursing homes were classified as emergency management facilities and granted immunity from civil liability, except in cases of gross negligence or willful misconduct.
Source: Jacobin magazine on 2021 Biden Cabinet Dec 2, 2020

On Health Care: Privatized & cut budgets for Medicaid

Raimondo's plan involved privatizing management of Medicaid in the state, outsourcing management to private insurers. By 2018, over 60% of the state's Medicaid budget went to private health insurers. That year, hospital administrators called Raimondo's round of cuts to Medicaid "devastating." The governor's proposed budget for 2020, introduced before the pandemic broke out in the United States, included nearly $60 million in Medicaid cuts.
Source: Jacobin magazine on 2021 Biden Cabinet Dec 2, 2020

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