What I don't understand is the need for government to provide this type of counseling. There's hundreds of clubs,associations, veterans groups, and this thing called "internet" as a minimum. All the free help in the world is available, and all that it takes is the person getting off their duff, applying minimum effort, and a wealth of information is as the fingertips. One way or another, the person will have to make some kind of effort, even to go to a government-paid counselor.

Medicare was never meant to be "legal insurance," and every non-medical additive just dilutes the moneys available for medical care.

All this provision does is throw money at groups like AARP, ACORN, La Raza and anyone else claiming to be "community helpers" to hire folk as "counselors." Licensed attorneys will not be the counselors, unless they are doing it as a pro bono service through a church group or something similar, and that's happening now without this proviso.

No, methinks this is going to be a "community action funding source." And for what?