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Cedar Falls, Iowa
A group demanding action on these issues joined together for conversation in Cedar Falls. Participants all agreed that whoever is elected needs to work in a bipartisan fashion and listen to the voices of real people when creating policy on long-term financial security and health care.
Some participants in the group characterized the current health care system as a shared system, but they felt businesses have not kept up their end of the bargain, leaving individuals unable to keep up with the pace of the rising cost of health care.
There were a couple of participants in the group who talked about how some farmers have to calculate the sale of their farm with how much money they think they will need to pay for their end-of-life care.
Should end-of-life health care costs be the determinant for when a farmer should sell their farm?
