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We are hard at work to make sure that the issues that matter to caregivers and our families are covered in the media. This page will be updated frequently to include links, videos, and news articles that highlight caregivers and our clients and cover the issues that impact homecare in California.

How Will The American Health Care Act Affect Home Health Care Workers?

By on May 17, 2017   /   Budget & Legislation, District 1, San Diego, UDW in the News  
How Will The American Health Care Act Affect Home Health Care Workers?

Insight With Beth Ruyak, Capital Public Radio, May 17, 2017 Journalist Paul Tullis shares his latest feature for Capital & Main on how the American Health Care Act would impact home health care workers. Also joining is Bonnie Kerlew, a retired Department of Defense Nurse who has now raising Jaime, a young man suffering from cerebral palsy. Kerlew is concerned Jaime will lose the funding he needs for his health care costs because of the AHCA replacement, she’s the principle character in Tullis’ story. You can listen to the radio interview here.

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Can California’s Most Vulnerable Survive Obamacare’s Replacement?

By on May 12, 2017   /   San Diego, UDW in the News, Videos  
Can California’s Most Vulnerable Survive Obamacare’s Replacement?

Paul Tullis, Capital and Main, May 12, 2017 When Bonnie Kerlew retired from her job as a nurse at the U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in 2005, she wanted to continue helping others. She eventually became guardian to a boy with cerebral palsy, whose family she had been helping, and today she cares for him by herself eight hours a day, plus weekends, in Oceanside. “After I got to be his guardian, his case worker came to me and asked why I wasn’t on IHSS,” Kerlew recalls. In-Home Supportive Services is a state program, administered by California’s 58 counties, […]

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Jaime’s Story: Left Behind by the American Health Care Act

By on May 12, 2017   /   District 1, News, San Diego, UDW in the News, Videos  
Jaime’s Story: Left Behind by the American Health Care Act

By Marco Amador, Capital & Main, May 12, 2017 The American Health Care Act passed by the House of Representatives, and supported by President Trump, would cause millions to lose their health care. Among those at greatest risk are severely disabled children, who depend on Medicaid for themselves and their caretakers.  

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The Freedom Foundation wants to fight Democrats by busting a California homecare union

By on April 1, 2017   /   District 2, News, Orange, UDW in the News, Uncategorized  
The Freedom Foundation wants to fight Democrats by busting a California homecare union

by Margot Roosevelt, The OC Register, April 1 The fundraising letter was blunt. “Union bosses spent some $100 million in member dues trying to elect Hillary Clinton and other liberal Democrats,” it read. “Well, the Deplorables had the last laugh.” With its mocking gibe at Clinton’s critique of Trump voters, the appeal from the Freedom Foundation, an Olympia, Washington-based “think-and-action tank,” landed in thousands of California mailboxes a few weeks ago, seeking tax-deductible gifts of up to $5,000. The solicitation was part of an ambitious Golden State expansion by the conservative foundation, starting with Orange County, as it wages what […]

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Locals rally against healthcare bill ahead of expected vote

By on March 23, 2017   /   District 5, Kern, News, UDW in the News  
Locals rally against healthcare bill ahead of expected vote

Dorothy Mills Greg, Bakersfield.com, March 23 On the eve of the House’s long-awaited, nail-biter vote to undo and replace Obamacare, 20 Kern County residents rallied in front of Congressman David Valadao’s Bakersfield office Thursday evening urging people to call on their representatives to vote against it. The House was scheduled to vote on the controversial American Health Care Act on Thursday, the seventh anniversary of the Affordable Care Act passing, but then leaders punted it to Friday so legislation supporters could lock in the needed votes. “I think it’s a joke,” Julie Otero, 53, said of the bill, “because where’s […]

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