Dear Editor;
Why is it that if you have a handicapped spouse you cannot care for them at home and get an allowance?
Instead, they say, “Put him in a nursing home”. Someone else could be paid to care for them, but not the spouse. That is discrimination.
A nursing home room costs how much more? Preserve dignity; don’t discriminate against families. Don’t contribute to the break-up of families. Be fair.
The government thinks spouses would be dishonest and abuse the system, which is both prejudice and discrimination.
With our health care system in a crisis with the boomers now aging, see the right choice – family caring for family with an allowance so they can live! Give spouses the support they deserve and a choice other than a nursing home.
Handicapped persons are people too.
Was it the immunization shots or pollution that caused the Multiple Sclerosis in my 53 year-old husband who is not a senior?
Sincerely,
Mabel Kreil
Rimbey