In Tennessee, families of disabled people question how personal assistance, nursing cuts save costs

From The Jackson Sun. In the picture, Sarah Kurek tells her daughter Joan ‘I love you’ and gives her a kiss at their home in Lexington, Tenn. Sarah Kurek and two assistants care for Joan, 67, who has had multiple strokes and has high blood pressure, mental retardation and cervical spinal stenosis.Lynn Johnson described her 35-year-old son Anthony as blind, with cerebral palsy and functioning