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 virtually feels 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 circumstances of Alzheimer’s illness in the US at present quantity about 7.2 million. Concurrently, individuals should work longer and longer for full Social Safety advantages.
However conspiracies are usually shrouded in secrecy. This example 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 The billionaires and their lackeys are betting that nobody cares, that outdated and disabled lives are expendable.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 great issues they are going to do with the tax cash saved from chopping 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 mother and father lived in an assisted dwelling 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 dwelling. However I believe 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 may make financial use of her home, similar to by renting it.
Michael Pollak, Los Angeles
