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Marcy Kaptur: “Our father had to fight to get him in there because there wasn't enough space for people who were ill and dying. That…”

On the recordJanuary 10, 2017
Our father had to fight to get him in there because there wasn't enough space for people who were ill and dying. That was before hospice and that was before Medicare. I remember, as a young girl, that that was a hard thing to experience, but our mother and father never protected us from the inevitable.
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Marcy Kaptur
Democratic · Ohio
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Jan 10, 2017

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