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April 23, 2007

Really, it's the lawyers that are the problem...

Gosh, here's another reason to get rid of lawsuits against nursing homes....If the federal government won't penalize nursing homes that routinely abuse and mistreat their patients, why should private lawyers get a whack at them? The new study on the feds abysmal oversight of the nursing home industry should give anyone with aging relatives a chill.

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