Bush Banishes Nursing Home Neglect Evidence

Just when you think it can't get any worse -- it does.

George W. Bush left office with a low approval rating and a path of destruction. Some of it is widely known and some very secretive.

This cover-up has to do with nursing homes and nursing home abuse and shielding evidence of abuse and neglect from the very people who need it to plead their case in court.

What Bush did was designate Medicare and Medicaid contractors as federal employees in order to prevent their information from being found or heard.

So your grandmother is in a nursing home and she has many bedsores; some which become infected. Finally, she gets real medical hospital care but it's too late; she dies. You sue the nursing home for neglect and abuse but the very records that your lawyer needs cannot be obtained under Bush's new rules.

Why would anyone protect the last shred of information that would help protect the elderly, the terminally ill, the most vulnerable in our society?

Now what?