What's Judy Feder up to these days? Let's just put it this way: she's doing a heck of a lot more good for Americans than Frank Wolf is. For instance,
here's a transcript of Judy Feder's testimony today before the Senate Special Committee on Aging. Here's a short excerpt:
...mythology about long-term care has long impeded effective long-term care policy. It is frequently claimed that the need for long-term care only arises when people get old, that it happens to just about everybody, and that it is the responsibility of individuals and families simply to “plan ahead” and take care of themselves or their family members “when the time comes.”
Such claims egregiously misrepresent the reality of long-term care needs and the extraordinary commitments families make to address them.
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The problem with today’s long-term care system is not that individuals and families fail to take enough responsibility. Rather, they simply do not have enough to give. The need for extensive long-term care is an unpredictable and catastrophic risk....
I'm proud to see Judy Feder, who I worked hard for in 2006 and 2008, fighting hard so that all Americans receive the health care they need.
