Letters to the Editor: More and more costly elder care ‘nearly appears like a conspiracy’

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 be able to cowl it, however what number of others can?,” June 21).

It nearly appears 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 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 The billionaires and their lackeys are betting that nobody cares, that outdated and disabled lives are expendable.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 great issues they may 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 ultimate years, my dad and mom lived in an assisted residing 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 residing. However I feel the advantages of assisted residing, together with social alternatives and organized medical appointments, make the transfer worthwhile. And if Kobata had been to maneuver, she may make financial use of her home, reminiscent of by renting it.

Michael Pollak, Los Angeles