Failing our elders
by Jacquea Olday—Pennsylvania
Today was my first day of canvassing the community with Working America. I knocked on my first door and met this elderly woman who has gone through so many problems with her income and health insurance. While she was signing up to become a member, she told me about how she takes over 20 pills a day, how her husband has problems with his health and how they are barely getting by. She was almost in tears as she told me about how she sometimes has to decide between her medicine and her groceries. It’s crazy in this nation how such bad things happen to the elderly, people who are disabled, people of color, immigrants and our soldiers. And what’s worse than that is how nothing is ever said about it.
I am happy that Working America is doing this because Americans and especially our elderly deserve the basic things (like health care, like the ability not to have to choose between medicine and groceries)—but we don’t have it. And there’s a problem with that.
Tags: health care, membership, seniors
thank you so much for haveing a heart for people over sixty i am sixty six my heart bleeds for all the seniors in this country i have worked all my life but was hurt on the job a year ago, the neurosurgeon that i had to go to said i was to old and worn out to work any more[ how dare he] just wait and see but god bless you keep careing other countrys do not treat there eldery like this firewater
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