Brendan Williams

As if its failed attacks upon Medicaid and Medicare were not enough (recurring in its latest budget proposal)…

Some people would like to pit care settings against one another for political gain. What they do not understa…

AS A LEGION OF Democrats begins running for President, we see, at the national level, the usual debate about …

Give the Trump administration credit: Having failed to get congressional authorization to decimate the Medica…

At a time of record-low nursing home occupancy, the Trump Administration has hit upon a solution: more nursin…

Hearing impairment is a common disability. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communi…

In Maine, a record number of nursing homes have closed this year, despite the fact that Maine has the nation'…

A record number of nursing homes have closed in Maine this year, the state with the nation’s oldest populatio…

It was without surprise that I read Gov. Kim Reynolds' administration had agreed to give Iowa Medicaid manage…

Having grown up in Iowa, it saddens me to see its seniors sold out to insurance companies. This year, a coali…

The scale of Iowa's Medicaid managed care disaster is so outsized that it influenced events in New Hampshire.…

In 2016, Senate Bill 553 created a working group to study the implications of turning Medicaid for long-term …

This is yet another attempt to extract savings from our most vulnerable to make what looks like a down paymen…

In 2007, following a years-long legislative push, Washington state adopted a paid family leave law. Much fanf…

Talk of income inequality has become all the rage in politics these days - with good reason.

STATE legislators who opposed recent concessions to Boeing were stuck in a futile position swept aside by fea…

DURING the state Legislature's ongoing special session to adopt a state budget, Senate hostage demands of the…

UNDER state law, it’s illegal to deceive in trade or commerce. After successive years in which initiative cam…

The Washington Legislature failed to close the state budget deficit in its recent special session. Guest colu…

Washington state fares poorly among states in terms of federal matching dollars going for state Medicaid prog…

Long-term care for our most vulnerable citizens is imperiled in Snohomish County and statewide.

Though faced with a daunting $9 billion budget deficit, the Washington Legislature has, in too many cases, fa…