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What’s wrong with us? Our nation’s moral compass, I mean.I don’t like being a downer, just focusing on wrongs, but some wrongs stand out as morally abominable, such as this one. It’s about hundreds of thousands of our low-income elders who, toward the end of life (when frail and most vulnerable) find themselves cast into a part of the Medicaid system that has been deliberately structured by Congress to subject them to needless deprivations and daily indignities.Keep Hightower raising hellThese are our loved ones with serious health problems who need long term care in nursing homes, and two-thirds of them [...]
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