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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Father Terrence who wrote (22123)5/27/1998 1:18:00 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Terrence, what exactly would you do about Medicare? Abolish it?

I know that my own grandmother died in her early sixties about two years before it was enacted, of a very treatable condition that resulted in kidney failure and death, because she did not have any money to see a doctor, and was too proud to ask her children for help. Since all of her sisters and brothers were still mentally sharp and physically spry and working into their mid-eighties, it would seem that probably took at least twenty relatively healthy years off of her life.

It is easy to look at places the government spends a lot of money, and in which there is a lot of fraud, and say we should just abolish them. Certainly, most people would agree that some reform of Medicare might be helpful; do you have any concrete ideas? At the same time, programs like this were enacted because there was a general belief that in a "civilized" society, old people deserved a safety net. Certainly, that is the standard now in other western societies.
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