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Series: Guest Column | Story 12

When Sen. Karen Keiser, D-Des Moines, opened a work session for the Senate Labor and Commerce Committee, she said the state’s law on long-term care was passed on a “bipartisan basis.”

As Inigo Montoya said in “The Princess Bride,” “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

The law creating WA Cares, proposed in House Bill 1087, cannot be described as bipartisan. By the time the bill made its way through the legislative process, it was passed on a party-line vote in the House of Representatives and had just one Republican senator voting in favor.

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