Could not help but add a concluding thought to a letter to the editor in today's Twin Falls Times News, from a retiree (from the College of Southern Idaho) who has been enrolled in the state government's Blue Cross supplement for Medicare.
"Imagine my surprise when I received a letter from Blue Cross stating that as of Jan. 1, 2010, all state retirees over the age of 65 were going to be kicked off the policy. Guess we are just too old and feeble? . . . If our state Legislature can pull this kind of a stunt, imagine what our national people will do if we turn health coverage over to Congress."
Just imagine. Bearing in mind that it was Congress that authorized Medicare, something it did 44 years ago and has sustained since, it being - you might recall - one of those hated federal programs. So why is it that this letter writer would find the state legislature any more trustworthy on this than Congress? []