I'm writing a paper on government funding medical needs for senior citizens. I don't think the government gives enough funding to senior citizens medical needs and waits until senior citizens exhaust all their resources to finally step in and help the elderly. Please give me your opinion.
To me it isn’t that “government” isn’t spending on senior citizens. That’s a fallacy, go to the CMS website and dive in to read just how much $ is spent. Its not more $ needed imho. But to me the issue is how $ is allocated.
Until US finally goes to true single payor system and actuarial index placed as a factor to ICD-10 care orders, the ideas floated out by politicians, AMA, industry lobbyists, big pharma, yada, yada name your group are just a bandaid on the costs of aging in America. The tsunami of baby boomers needing 24/7 oversight type of care probably will hit in 2025/2027 and it will collapse state budgets. Maybe then will a true change happen. Again imho US spends plenty of $ on “senior” health care costs; spending more not the solution. Spending less and spending differently is what needs to happen.
Future requests such as this should be reported to the admins. That is what I will be doing from now on.