To the editor: Thanks, columnist Steve Lopez, for placing the elder playing cards on the desk (“The monthly tab for her in-home elder care: $18,000. She can cover it, but how many 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 look after the disabled and aged every year) faces drastic cuts. To not point out that instances of Alzheimer’s illness in the US at present quantity about 7.2 million. Concurrently, folks should work longer and longer for full Social Safety advantages.
However conspiracies are usually shrouded in secrecy. This example is not 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 The billionaires and their lackeys are betting that nobody cares, that outdated and disabled lives are expendable.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’ll do with the tax cash saved from reducing Medicaid!
Susan Calhoun, Lynwood
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To the editor: Most individuals can’t afford to have somebody look after themselves alone 24 hours a day. Of their closing years, my dad and mom lived in an assisted residing facility for about half of what Reiko Kobata pays per particular person for in-home care. Positive, there are changes for an older particular person to maneuver to assisted residing. However I believe the advantages of assisted residing, together with social alternatives and organized medical appointments, make the transfer worthwhile. And if Kobata have been to maneuver, she may make financial use of her home, equivalent to by renting it.
Michael Pollak, Los Angeles
