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Subject: Re: Medicare/Medicaid - Running out of assets
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 13:39:28 -0500
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>Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 08:57:16 -0400 (EDT) >From: Nancy Slator <neslator@amherst.edu> >Subject: RE: Medicare/Medicaid - Running out of assets > >> Medicaid is a program to assist those who cannot afford medical care. In our >> paychecks, we are taxed for programs such as these, in the form of a social >> security tax. Welfare assists those who cannot work, and therefore do not >> pay into the system. My mother worked for 50 years and paid into the system. >> If she and others like her do not wish to impoverish themselves in order to >> receive benefits from a system they paid into, then it is their right to >> transfer assets to their children to do so. > >If elders have money, then they *can* afford medical care. If they give >their money away rather than pay their own way, then they have turned >themselves into public charges. Their children, to whom they gave the >money, are turning their parents' care over to the government rather than >paying for it as a family obligation. > >My mother may or may not be in a position to leave money to her children. >I resent my tax money paying for the care of other people's mothers >because they chose to give their money to family members rather than take >care of themselves. > >I *don't* resent my tax money going to pay for welfare for truly needy >people who haven't engineered their poverty to qualify for government >benefits. > >- -- Nancy Slator, neslator@amherst.edu >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 10:04:48 -0700 >From: elaine steward <esslady@ix.netcom.com> >Subject: Re: Medicare/Medicaid - Running out of assets > >> I resent my tax money paying for the care of other people's mothers >> because they chose to give their money to family members rather than take >> care of themselves. I resent the system that makes this the smartest way to deal with the issue for most people. This wouldn't happen in a system in which everyone was insured or we had socialized medicine. Without those things, a grass roots movement to change the system or a sensible legislature, intelligent people cannot be blamed for looking out for themselves. Capitalism is based on survival of the fittest. It would be unAmerican to spend money if you could find a way not to. If greedy politicians or lobbyists aren't looking out for your self interests or those of your family, don't blame people for doing what they can to look out for themselves. In a sense, our policians become our role models for better or for worse. >> I *don't* resent my tax money going to pay for welfare for truly needy >> people who haven't engineered their poverty to qualify for government >> benefits. > >Amen! > >elaine <esslady@ix.netcom.com> Mark Nowak Chicago, Illinois Motorola: nowak@comm.mot.com IIT: mnowak@ece.iit.edu http://www.ece.iit.edu/~mnowak/index.html Hotmail: marknowak@hotmail.com, http://www.geocities.com/Paris/1092/ - -
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