Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me, When I’m 65 (and Over)?

Famous lines from a popular song, or an insight into our future? I wrote a short piece last month regarding the not so nice part of growing old, referring to the to eat or to heat choices currently being forced upon our pensioners, both here and in our Home Territories. Sunday in the Politics Show a debate was raised centred around Medical Health Care afforded to our pensioners. The question posed that most concerned me was to the effect of “Should Pensioners Receive Equal Access to Hospital Care”?

Looking at the audience, I felt that the so called older generation was very much in the minority, and subsequently under represented, therefore, if it were to be put to a vote there and then, the outcome would automatically be in favour of the younger generation. What worries me about  this, is that if we follow Health Guides advising us how to live longer, then when we do grow older we are not to expect decent health care as we are deemed to old, what exactly can we expect, anything?

I for one believe that there should be equality for all, with all cases  being based on need, not on age! If my grandparents were alive today, I am sure they would cringe at the state of the National Health Service. Both sets of my grandparents went through Two World Wars, and for what? Are we about to let those down who laid their own life down, so that we could  enjoy the liberty and democracy that we enjoy to this day!

I hope that when you read this piece, you stop to remember all of those that went before us, and what we as a nation owe them.