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To: peter michaelson who wrote (15)	4/1/1998 7:43:00 AM
From: LPasko	Respond to of 36

I think Peter has hit on the central question of this debate. My view is that we are looking at a battle of logic--which tells us that elderly people should pay for the services they need if able to do so--and emotion. The emotion involved is a general feeling by many that they are being treated unfairly by fate: a feeling that their inheritance and their parents' lifetime accumulation of wealth will be lost to a nursing home by reason of a relatively brief illness. My perception is that this leads most people to believe that any and all means to evade nursing home payments, and to foist them on Medicaid and the taxpayers generally, are acceptable. I struggle with this issue myself. I'd be interested to see what others think.