Nationwide healthcare mandate has deep implications for nursing homes

President Obama's mandate to provide affordable access to healthcare by 2014 is rocking the nursing home industry, where employees have traditionally been paid lower wages and not offered health insurance. "We may see the exacerbation of a two-tiered system of nursing home care where some people are taken care of in facilities that have good continuous care because they are able to provide those benefits and others being taken care of in facilities that may be marginal," said Jacqueline Zinn, professor of risk, insurance and healthcare management at Temple's Fox School of Business.
May 17, 2011 | KYW News Radio