Institutionalized Medicaid recipients sue Florida
September 20, 2008 By MATT SEDENSKY , Associated Press Writer
Charles Todd Lee is seen in his room at the Community Care Center in Plant City, Fla., Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. He's among the Medicaid recipients across Florida challenging the nightmare of the old and disabled: to be forced from comfort and familiarity into a nursing home. They say the state is illegally forcing them to live in nursing homes when they should be able to live where they choose.(AP Photo/John Raoux)
(AP) -- Charles Todd Lee spent a lifetime going backstage at concerts, following politicians on the campaign trail and capturing iconic shots of everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. to Mick Jagger to Mickey Mantle. Today, he enjoys such freedom only in his dreams.
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