The Health Care Promises We Cannot Keep

The Health Care Promises We Cannot Keep
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It was a promise Matt Perrin wasn’t able to keep.

“I’ll never take away your independence,” he’d told his mother, Rosemary, then 71, who lived alone on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in a much-loved cottage.

Judith Graham
Judith Graham
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Judith Graham is a contributing columnist for Kaiser Health News, which originally published this article. KHN’s coverage of these topics is supported by The John A. Hartford Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and The SCAN Foundation.
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