To the editor: Thanks, columnist Steve Lopez, for placing the elder playing cards on the desk (“The month-to-month tab for her in-home elder care: $18,000. She will cowl it, however what number of others can?,” June 21).
It nearly seems like a conspiracy: Elder care changing into unaffordable for all however the 1% as Medicaid (which pays for greater than half of the cash spent on long-term take care of the disabled and aged annually) faces drastic cuts. To not point out that instances of Alzheimer’s illness in america presently quantity about 7.2 million. Concurrently, individuals should work longer and longer for full Social Safety advantages.
However conspiracies are sometimes shrouded in secrecy. This case isn’t any secret. It’s been constructing for many years. The billionaires and their lackeys are betting that nobody cares, that outdated and disabled lives are expendable.
What fantastic issues they are going to do with the tax cash saved from slicing Medicaid!
Susan Calhoun, Lynwood
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To the editor: Most individuals can’t afford to have somebody take care of themselves alone 24 hours a day. Of their ultimate years, my mother and father lived in an assisted dwelling facility for about half of what Reiko Kobata pays per individual for in-home care. Certain, there are changes for an older individual to maneuver to assisted dwelling. However I feel the advantages of assisted dwelling, together with social alternatives and organized medical appointments, make the transfer worthwhile. And if Kobata have been to maneuver, she might make financial use of her home, reminiscent of by renting it.
Michael Pollak, Los Angeles
