Political Quotes

“I actually was noting that I visited with Carlene Wiley in Austin, TX on Saturday morning at a grocery store in North Austin, and she is one of those people who is just too concerned about estate taxes for her mother, because the only way she could get her mother into a Texas nursing home when he was unable to care for her any more was to sell her mother's house, so that her mother has no estate left other than whatever little personal belongings she may have there in the nursing home. I think that may be the type of person. We are talking about real, live human beings that are out there today facing these problems, whether we take that system in place today and extend it so that if you have a couple out there and one of them becomes so ill with say Alzheimer's that they can no longer be cared for at home, with the tremendous emotional toll that that would take on a husband or wife, that they find themselves in addition to that awful emotional loss faced with selling their house or selling their car, selling their estate in order to just get a basic level of health care without any longer even a Federal safety net there as far as assuring that when they get into the nursing home after they have sold their house and car, they will have any quality care.”