Judith Feder, professor of public policy, on the false debate over whether long-term care should be financed by public or private money:

"That rhetoric obscures the facts. We already have a mixed public-private system, and we always will. The real choice is whether to keep today's dysfunctional system or create something that won't buckle under millions of aging boomers."

Long-term Care Threatens to Sap Seniors' Savings

June 17, 2009, The Dallas Morning News