Article: Fair Share.(Brief Article)

BILLY CLAY, ADMINISTRATOR of a Brinkley nursing home, makes an impassioned argument for his industry in the letter to the editor that appears below. It is human nature, he says, to feel victimized by sudden rate increases that hit some patients who pay their own way by as much as $750 a month. But the nursing homes, he says, are simply asking these patients for "their fair share."

When Gov. Huckabee first ordered an investigation of the price increase, we were inclined to dismiss it just as Clay does -- as a politician running for cover. After all, Huckabee signed the bed tax legislation that set in motion the various factors on which the additional costs to ...

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