I had seen a thing on tv not so long ago and it's been an ongoing topic for awhile now... Prescription medication for the elderly and Wellfare. As you all may know by now that I'm all for stirring the poo, but this time I'm stirring it in a different direction.
First, let's tackle the ongoing problem with the elderly and prescription medication. Before my grandparents passed they were spending hundreds of dollars for medication, some of which they didn't really need in the long run. The low income of most elderly people in our nation are in trouble because they can't afford healthcare or their medication.
In a nation quick to make a buck, doctors getting kickbacks for prescribing new medications for the elderly to use... Doctors tell them they need it, so the elderly are forced to pay the outragious prices for these medicines.
They have to choose which medications to buy at which time, which they could let go for a few days, and how many of the prescription quantity they can afford at one time.
I believe that once you reach a certain age, healthcare and prescriptions should be free.
You have medicare and social security; both are jokes. Medicare doesn't cover most of those prescriptions so the elderly has to dip into their social security money to pay for them.
This leads me to number two...
Wellfare...
How many Americans are on Wellfare? Quite a few. How many people that are on it actually really need it? Probably around 15%. You have people collecting Wellfare checks and getting a few hundred dollars of food stamps a month and drive $30,000-$40,000 cars. Buying beer and worse with the money when their children (the reason they get the free money to begin with) go without winter clothes or food. All the while, the actual people who need the help can't get it, because there's simply "no money for it."
Sure, everyone needs a little help every now and then, but it's time for the government to implement a limit on how long someone of good health can collect the free money. I think most states have laws regarding this, but mostly don't enforce it. I know for a fact that Tennessee doesn't. It's supposed to be a year, no more than two years for an able bodied citizen to collect wellfare. I know someone who has collected Wellfare for nearly 9 years now. The loophole in the Wellfare system in Tennessee is, as long as someone has minor children and go to some kind of school. She has three degrees right now and is working on a fourth.
"I need it because there's no jobs. I need it because I can't work." There's jobs out there. Most companies hire through temp services now, because it's the newest trend and cheaper for them to weed out the bad apples. American's are lazy and want to be paid good money for not doing anything to really earn it. Why can't you work? "Childcare is too expensive." There's government programs out there for people who make less than $18,000 a year that will pay up to $150 a week for childcare. Instead of driving a 2008 Mustang Convertable, why not get something a little more reasonable and pay childcare with the money you'd save?
These were just a couple of things that I had on my mind. Thanks for reading.
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Topic: The Wellfare and the Elderly (Read 2132 times)
November 24, 2009, 02:22:09 pm
