OT: Will one of you wingnuts please explain how this is a good idea?

[Alan Baker]

'The Trump administration has proposed revising a rule that hasn’t even
gone into effect yet, with the goal of making sure that nursing home
residents and their loved ones can not sue these long-term care
facilities in the event that something horrible happens.

Amid concerns about the treatment of patients at nursing homes and
assisted living facilities, a growing number of the companies that
operate these businesses have begun including forced arbitration clauses
in their residents’ contracts.

These clauses take away the patient’s constitutional right to a day in
court, and shunt all legal disputes into private (often confidential)
arbitration. Additionally, most arbitration clauses also include a ban
on class actions, so multiple residents of the same facility who were
each wronged in the same way would nonetheless be barred from having
their issue heard jointly. Rather, each resident would be required to go
through the arbitration process on their own.'

<https://consumerist.com/2017/06/07/trump-administration-will-allow-nursing-homes-to-strip-residents-of-legal-rights/>