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Hi All , We're moving my mother home from a nursing home and am in the process if hiring care for her. We need 24 hour live in, though mom sleeps through the night. She is immobile, hoyer lift needed. In talking with willing applicants, it seems they need to shift her every 2 hours. Because of that, the care required is more involved. The quote I'm getting is $375 a day. That adds up to $136k per year?! Does that seem right? Any thoughts from my Freeper friends much appreciated.

Like every other week since my 50th birthday,in today's mail I received the envelope from AARP reminding me that I was getting on in years, and that soon I would want to be a member so I can get that discount from the local cinema. Today's letter was different, it sparked me into action, not to join the group but to tell them to stop mailing me the letters as I could not join an organization the could support an anti-senior legislation like Obamacare. The phone call started out very civilly, I pointed out that when the plan talked about...

Here's another example of the lies the American People are being thrown about the Obamacare process, especially the part about receiving the same quality medical attention via Obamacare that one receives now. Folks its no joke, I know no other way of putting it, the Democratic Party wants to kill your Grandparents. If you are a baby-boomer I would worry because you are a target also. Its nothing personal, just business. It makes economic sense, its expensive to keep old people alive. That's why the plan forces young people, who presently don't have heath care to purchase it. Keeping them...

The program created by Wisconsin five years ago to help low-income seniors get prescription drugs serves 104,000 people and, state officials say, has saved the federal government $669 million in Medicaid costs. That is why Gov. Jim Doyle (D) and seniors advocates were more than disappointed last week when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services decided to pull the plug on federal funding for SeniorCare after June 30. "The Bush administration is making a terrible mistake," Doyle said in a statement after learning of the decision from acting CMS Administrator Leslie V. Norwalk. "As a result, Wisconsin seniors will...