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A look at Consumer Reports' new investigation on nursing homes, and strategies for finding quality care.
Trudy Lieberman, director of the Center for Consumer Health Choices at the Consumers Union (publisher of Consumer Reports)
Tom Burke, senior director, public relations, American Health Care Association
Claire McIntyre, consumer. Placed her mother in a nursing home last year.
Eric Carlson, attorney, National Senior Citizens Law Center. Coauthor, "The Baby Boomer's Guide to Nursing Home Care."
NPR and FOX News journalist Juan Williams joins Diane to talk about what he calls a phenomenon of black Americans living as if they were locked out from all America has to offer.
Juan Williams, NPR correspondent and author