Posted by: Dotsie
funding for the aged?! - 11/23/03 07:53 PM
I'm hearing a lot about people entering retirement homes/communities and I have something I'm very curious about.
Seems to me it isn't truly in your best interest to work very hard all your life and get a pension upon retirement... when a care community will dwindle it away until you have no more money. At that time they let medicare take over.
The people who don't have a pension go in without their hard working pension money and get the same treatment from the very beginning without paying anything.
This could be a very touchy subject, but I don't think it's fair for the ones who've worked their whole lives with a very strong work ethic.
Any thoughts?
Just read this and hope you can understand my point...
Seems to me it isn't truly in your best interest to work very hard all your life and get a pension upon retirement... when a care community will dwindle it away until you have no more money. At that time they let medicare take over.
The people who don't have a pension go in without their hard working pension money and get the same treatment from the very beginning without paying anything.
This could be a very touchy subject, but I don't think it's fair for the ones who've worked their whole lives with a very strong work ethic.
Any thoughts?
Just read this and hope you can understand my point...