Every year, Minnesota spends 850 million dollars caring for the state's elderly in nursing homes. As baby-boomers approach retirement, long-term care experts worry that unless changes occur those costs could skyrocket. A tri-partisan task-force studied the issue last summer and wants the state to meet consumer demand by creating a better system of home and community based care. But the transformation will not be cheap. The task-force, the governor and the industry all expect the state to spend over a 100 million dollars in the 2 year budget to start this system. In the second part in our three-part series on long-term care "A Question of Dignity" Minnesota Public Radio's Tom Scheck examines the legislative proposals.