Seniors Rally at State House, Demand Home Care Funding
As of Tuesday, 1,221 seniors remained on waiting lists for home care.
Dozens of senior citizens stood outside Gov. Deval Patrick's office in the State House on Thursday demanding that their concerns about cuts in home care spending be heard. Chanting "Can you hear us now, governor?" the seniors wanted Patrick to respond to a letter several senior advocacy groups sent him in September detailing what they say has been a $15 million cut since 2009 in home care services and asking for such funding to be restored. Although Patrick didn't meet with the seniors, Ann Hartstein, his secretary of the Executive Office of Elder Affairs, took their questions and comments in a downstairs press room. "The governor is totally communted to community-first," Hartstein said of the policy that promotes home care over nursing-…
Matthew
2:29 pm on Sunday, January 20, 2013
This nation is suffering from out of control spending. Every sane, rational person realizes that we need to make cuts. But no one wants THEIR government programs touched. We've all become so dependent on the government to take care of us. Something needs to be cut. But what? Suggest defense spending and the hawks freak out. Suggest cutting government subsistance and the bleeding hearts label you … more ›