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For three hours, a variety of Senators and healthcare experts discussed options. And for three hours, not one person said anything about long term services and supports (long term care, by another name).
Sadly, the closest that the hearing came to a mention of long term services and supports (LTSS) was when they engaged in a discussion of “the high cost of dying.”
Yup, the Senate, in all its gentle wisdom, is showing more interest in how much it costs for seniors and others to stay alive at the very end than they have shown in how seniors and people with disabilities live for the DECADES before we get around to dying…………………
Chairman Baucus, what’s on your political palate? : Center for Disability Rights : Free Our People
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