The Aged Need to Understand Health Care

Medicare is the insurance that elderly people, over the age of 65 use in order to obtain the health care that they need. Medicare Part B has been instituted in order to help supplement the short comings of Medicare and has elderly people paying out of their small social security funds in order to receive the benefits that they need.

Many in the U.S. worry about the future of the Medicare system and with good reason. If the money is already gone out of the Medicare health care system, then where will the money for future generations come from? It is a question and problem that comes without an easy solution.

What it is important to understand is that elderly care is much more expensive than health care at any other point in a person's life. People as they age have an increase of health issues to deal with and require more regular doctor's care then ever before in their lives. The cost to treat the elderly is a large expense and with the rising costs of health care in the United States, coupled with the fact that more people are living into their nineties, presents problems that just can't be addressed with a simple answer.

One thing is for certain and that is that we need to take care of the elderly population and help them obtain the health care that they need. At the same point, it is questionable as to whether or not we can actually sustain this current system that has already created much of this country's national debt.

Perhaps creating a health care system that will cover all American's will not only help those who are struggling to survive without health insurance in this country, but will also help us continue to support the medical needs of the elderly in a more economically sound system. There are no easy answers to the health care crisis in this country however, it is important to realize that most of us will hit 65 sooner or later and it would be nice to believe that we will at least be able to seek treatment for our ailments in our old age.