The Elderly and Rationed Care
The elderly… just think of that word for a minute, for who among us even if we are not old ourselves does not have in their lives, love or care for a mother or a father or a grandparent; a neighbor a friend or a respected colleague? Who? Who among us, even if we are in our prime will not someday become seniors? Who among us, in our right mind, would pay into a system our whole lives and then when we reach the sunset of our years be discarded and crushed like an old clunker—something to be demolished for a newer model. And although this type of youthful thinking seem progressive it is as backward as the middle ages and just as cruel because it cares for none but the bureaucratic elite among us.
So no, we do not want our monies diverted away from Medicare to go to help pay for any universal healthcare system. And we certainly do not want any system that would ultimately ration our care. Which brings us back to the word ‘reform’. And so we ask, does the current Medicare system need reform? And we answer yes. We answer yes because of all the inefficiencies, corruption and mindless spending. We answer yes because as it stands Medicare which is part of the Social Security system is unsustainable if it continues on its current course. As citizens we know it and so too does the current administration and our congress. But instead of tackling a perfectly good system and making it better, congress is asking us to believe that it will take our hard earned tax dollars and divert them into yet another deplorable system which is just as corrupt and just as inefficient, and perhaps more so. Well we don’t buy into that type of false thinking. Namely, that we should allow congress to destroy the whole of something in order to change some of its parts. Making improvements to our healthcare does not require a complete overhaul. Yet the democrat majority in congress would ask us to believe in building sand castles to the sky in the hopes that we will be amoured by its beauty and complexity. It is not like building a sand castle because sand castles are built on a shaky foundation and is effected by the constant flow of the tides.—It is sure to crumble and erode over time, disappearing in the wind.
