I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meagre incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness.
"Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 6, (pp. 120-121), 1969.
