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I've seen this exact problem with home health assistants. If you have a Medicaid waiver and qualify for a home assistant, Virginia will pay $16/hr for a full-ti
by actionablefiber 4y ago
I've seen this exact problem with home health assistants. If you have a Medicaid waiver and qualify for a home assistant, Virginia will pay $16/hr for a full-time assistant in a high COL area. The bottleneck is of course finding someone willing to accept unlivably low wages (edit: which you cannot supplement) for a very hands-on, dead-end job that entails significant liability.
- jamiek88 4y agoIt’s physically exhausting work too. The conditions are so shitty and pay so poor that I almost question the motivations of people doing it. A lot of ‘saints’ but also a lot of theft and abuse , particularly around medication occurs in these low cost facilities and low pay home help.