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LTC Bullet: Update on "Granny's
Attorney Goes to Jail" Efforts
Thursday July 30, 1998
Seattle--
The August issue of LTC News & Comment
contains David Rosenfeld's cover-story status report on the criminalization
of Medicaid planning.
Rosenfeld recounts the intense lobbying
efforts by Medicaid planners to get the law repealed
or declared unconstitutional and then concludes: "The irony
of it all is that nothing has done more to raise awareness of
this issue and build support against Medicaid planning than the
public relations efforts of the Medicaid planners themselves….
Make no mistake [however]. We shouldn't expect Congress to lead
us out of the wilderness of a failed LTC system. The American
public must coalesce on this issue and inspire Congress to overcome
the protests of those clinging to the status quo. We have no one
to blame but ourselves if nothing gets done."
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