Scott Parkin
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"Scott Parkin"p>"Scott Parkin" (b. 1969, Garland, Texas is a peace, environmental and global justice organizer, community college history instructor, and a founding member of the Houston Global Awareness Collective. He has been a vocal critic of the 2003 invasion of Iraq/American invasion of Iraq, and of corporations such as Exxonmobil and Halliburton. Since 2006, he has worked as an campaigner for the Rainforest Action Network, organizing campaigns against Bank of America, Citibank, Energy Future Holdings/TXU and the Keystone XL Pipeline. He also organizes with Rising Tide North America.

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There is a great opportunity here for people to stay out of nursing homes and get the care they want in the place they want, which is normally at home.

This is a new program, and people are trying to learn about it, and concerns about travel are questions people need to ask. It could be a problem, but we probably won't see this until more people start heading north.

There are many more options than most people know about. Most people are pretty uninformed about long-term care.

When you're talking about $46,000 a year, it eats up whatever inheritance there might be.

I've got two kids and I don't want to burden them with that kind of expense when I'm 75 or 80 or 85. People with houses, stocks, savings, retirement funds, they may want to look at this. That's what drives the middle class to think about long-term-care insurance, to preserve estates.

Before you sign a contract, you need to make sure that a community is financially secure. You can start by asking for an audited financial statement.