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Opinion: My aunt’s ‘Kafkaesque journey’ to get the home care she needed
As an attorney who has concentrated in elder law and long-term care rights for more than two decades, I was only too happy to help my aunt, who suffers from numerous illnesses and requires significant assistance with all of her activities of daily living, to apply to Medicaid for the home care services she greatly needs. Little did I know that her request would lead us to file a class action lawsuit in a New York federal court seeking to obtain fair treatment for hundreds of thousands of New York Medicaid recipients, and to an appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Her Kafkaesque journey is still underway.
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