Background: Establishes the Michigan Quality Home Care Council to register, background check and provide standards for home care providers.
What it does: Ensures seniors and people with disabilities have an affordable, safe choice of living at home, rather than at more-expensive nursing homes. Links providers with patients, provides for extensive background checks and saves taxpayer dollars since home care is significantly less expensive to taxpayers than nursing homes.
Proposal 4 is supported by:
A. Philip Randolph Institute
ACCESS
ADAPT
AFT
Area Agencies on Aging – Association of Michigan
Alliance of Retired Americans
America Votes
The Arc Michigan
Clean Water Action
Equality Michigan
Grey Panthers of Metro Detroit
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) of Greater Lansing Area
The Law Enforcement Awareness Network
Michigan Alliance for Immigrants Rights / Michigan Organizing Project
Michigan AFL-CIO
Michigan AFSCME Council 25
Michigan Association for Justice
Michigan Disability Rights Coalition
Michigan Education Association
Michigan Laborers Union
Michigan League for Public Policy
Michigan NOW
MS Society
One Michigan
Progress Michigan
ROC – Michigan
SEIU Michigan State Council
Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice
UAW
UFCW
Proposal 4 is opposed by:
Amway
Amerisure Insurance
Fifth Third Bank
Huntington Bank
Independent Tea Party Patriots
Lapeer County Tea Party Patriots
Rattle With Us Tea Party
ReTakeOurGov Tea Party
Sheldon Adelson
Waste Management
Since I am a home care worker I am voting yes on proposal 4. Seniors have the right to be safe and stay in their homes. Most can not afford nursing home care.
My father is recently disabled from a massive stroke and living with my already stretched thin sister who is having trouble taking care of him. My mother, who was his primary care giver at my sisters home, also recently fell ill and is unable to provide the care for my father that she did before. We do not want him to go to a nursing home because we know 1. it will bleed him dry of his savings and 2. because of the terrible service, conditions and experiences we have had there! I think that he should qualify for home care and it should be safe for our family to bring someone into our homes, which are filled with women and young children, and not have to worry that person has a criminal record….God forbid a CSC accusation!!! I vote YES!!
I’m voting yes the elderly derserve to know who is taking care of them most jobs require background checks why not caregivers.