The Importance of Medicare
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Medicare’s journey can only be matched by the difference Medicare has made in the lives of the elderly and disabled. At the time, growing old meant poverty; growing old meant disability; and growing old meant going without health insurance. It paved a way to help them rise from the twilight of life.
A big percentage of seniors had no insurance for hospital care. Many had to choose between saving their health and spending all they had saved. Too many had to watch the spark of hope fade as they drown into poverty. And too many had to bear the pain of an untreated illness-and a seemingly uncaring nation.
Medicare is a living program- one whose promise will be just as important for each succeeding generation of Americans. But to be able to keep that promise for future generations, for our children and grandchildren, we must continue to strengthen and modernize Medicare.
The fact remains, that thanks to Medicare-young families and young people would no longer have to deplete their own savings and dreams providing for the medical needs of older family members.