⁶Similarly, in Ohio, segments of the nursing home industry had defeated several proposals for a residents' bill of rights. When a fifth bill was introduced, the for-profit trade association estimated that implementing a residents' bill of rights would cost more than $1.50 per resident per day. The staff of the Ohio legislature's Nursing Home Commission estimated the cost at only a few pennies per resident day. To demonstrate their confidence in the estimate, commission staff asserted that they would perform all the notification, resident and family contacts, and hearing components of the bill for $0.42 per resident day, and use the proceeds to fund the operation of the commission, including its fraud hearings, in perpetuity. The industry dropped its cost argument, and the bill was enacted by the Ohio legislature.[Return to Text]