Services almost never disappear because somebody decided your family member stopped needing them. They disappear because a rate never kept pace with inflation, a rule got reinterpreted, a budget line moved to another column. It reaches your kitchen table as sudden loss. It started as arithmetic, and understanding that arithmetic is the only way to argue against it.

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