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Kamala Harris this week proposed to have Medicare cover in-home care for seniors and people with disabilities, in what would amount to a major expansion of the beloved federal health insurance program.

And while it doesnt appear to have registered as such in the political conversation (more on that in a minute), her plan made an impression on a lot of everyday Americans who heard about it.

Mike Jennings is one of them.

Jennings is a web developer in northeast Kansas. About ten years ago, he, his sister and his mother became the primary caregivers for his grandmother, who was then in the early stages of Alzheimers disease. She wanted to live at home, and the rest of the family wanted that too, Jennings told me in a phone interview. But they couldnt afford to hire in-home help, so they took on the responsibility of caring for her themselves trading shifts, juggling work and other responsibilities.

We basically had to drop everything, it was all-hands-on-deck, said Jennings, who was in his mid-30s at the time.

It was especially tough on his mother, Jennings said, because every time she dashed home from work to help with a care-related emergency, she felt like she was putting her job in jeopardy. And things only got worse as his grandmothers condition deteriorated, requiring ever greater vigilance.

She had gotten out of the house multiple times, Jennings said. One time she got out during a particularly bad storm, and we couldnt find her, and it turned out she was sitting in a neighbors truck. She was injured. We had to take her to the hospital.

Eventually the family found a memory care unit they could afford inside an assisted living facility, and they paid for it with a combination of his grandmothers pension and a state program for which she had finally qualified. But things might have been different if a program like Harris Medicare proposal had existed at the time, Jennings said.

It would have been a lot less stress, a lot less money, a lot less pain and I think my grandmother would have been happier, Jennings said. Even if its not full-time, even if its part-time, it would have been such a weight lifted off our shoulders that I cant even describe it.