Medical Care for Seniors. "Let nature take its course."

This is a paraphrase from a person who will remain nameless, but obviously my junior.  The implication is we should not strain our government's financial resource to provide anything beyond simple pain medication as we age.  I would remind you of a few facts.  First, you are lucky that abortion wasn't so prevalent when you were blest on the woman you call mom.  We had many choices that we didn't exercise in your early years, that of adoption or putting you in the hands of what might be sarcastically called a "caring government".  We changed your diapers and used cloth diapers to save money for your future education, and hopefully for a retirement for us that seemed far off.  When you ran a temperature of 102, we called the doctor, put you on expensive drugs that sometimes cut into what might have been a meager budget.  We chose to have old cars, rather than the new models, because we had kids to care for at home.  We worked two jobs at times to buy a house in a neighborhood that had a good school for you.  We bought you what we could afford, but at times "blew the budget" to buy you expensive Christmas gifts.  That bicycle wasn't something that the government bought.  We fought our way through your teen years, and the crazy comments you sarcastically made about your mother and me, and loved you despite the midnight rides in the car trying to figure out why you violated our curfew.  We did our best!

Our retirement is made up of a meager pension, some savings, social security that our government has chosen to raid, Medicare that often puts us in front of a nurse rather than a doctor, and inflation that is causing great concern as we reach our weakest years.

Now you and your generation are saying, not very skillfully, that we should let a government we don't trust decide what health care we get, and how it will be delivered.  As we reach our waning years you now say, "let nature take its course"!!!  It is taking it's course, and the idea that a government bureaucrat will decide what health measures are taken for me and your mom is disgusting!   -- Enough