Sun.Jan 24, 2021

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Avoiding Health & Safety Issues for Nursing Homes in Future

Nexa Collect

Covid-19 changed everything for nursing homes. There was a very high fatality rate of senior citizens in nursing homes nationwide, bringing in greater scrutiny of federal regulators on how the industry will operate in the future. . Nursing homes are seen as the next level of long-term, residential, maintenance care for patients who are otherwise stable but in poor or declining health and unable to fully care for themselves.

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My new article: Six Scandals: Why We Need Consumer Protection Laws Instead of Just Markets

Public Citizen

by Jeff Sovern. My new article is now up on SSRN: Six Scandals: Why We Need Consumer Protection Laws Instead of Just Markets. Here' is the abstract: Markets are powerful mechanisms for serving consumers. Some critics of regulation have suggested that markets also provide consumer protection: for example, Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman said “Consumers don’t have to be hemmed in by rules and regulations.

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The Secret Sauce Is There Is No Secret Sauce: Converting Your Sales Process for the Convenience Economy

NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

There is likely a mentor in your past who told you to make sure that you don’t give away the farm when talking to potential clients. The idea is to leave them wanting more. That’s bad advice. If you leave legal consumers wanting more in 2020, they will go find another attorney. The fact is, even without the emergence of the coronavirus, the convenience economy was coming in hot anyway.

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