Delegates to conference on aging upset about changes(Chicken George)

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http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1134552870299310.xml&coll=2

Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Susan Jaffe
Plain Dealer Reporter

Washington - For the first time in more than 40 years, the president won't speak to the White House Conference on Aging. And delegates to this year's meeting cannot change the resolutions or propose others.

More than 1,200 delegates from across the country are meeting here this week for the fifth aging conference, which is required by federal law every 10 years...

Robert Binstock, professor of aging, health and society at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, said President Bush's absence was a snub. It didn't help matters that Bush made time Tuesday to visit a retirement community in a Washington suburb.

"That he went to speak about Medicare in Virginia today, instead of an assembly of delegates from all over the country indicates that he's afraid to speak in anything but a controlled environment," Binstock said during a session on improving the Medicare program, which provides health care for 43 million older and disabled Americans...

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1. Sounds as if the bubble boy is afraid of grandma and grandpa.