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"Thank you for not talking to me like a black man."
That statement of gratitude was said to me by Maurice Brown, an African-American man, more than 15 years ago. At that time I was manager of the Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program (HICAP) for Los Angeles County, a program administered by the California Department of Aging. I was talking to Maurice about the possibility of his training a group of HICAP volunteers.See the full content of this document
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Stein: Seeing the Man Before His Color
I was looking for someone who could help the volunteer counselors, most of whom were over the age of 65, in their peer counseling on Medicare, HMOs and supplemental insurance at senior citizen centers throug...
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