[JohnBovenmyer]

If her mother had been allowed to keep, save and invest all the unnecessary taxes the government took from her and her husband over her long life, which the government then wasted on things it shouldn't have been doing, she'd probably have had enough left to afford the kind of care she now needs! The proper strategy to pay for long term care is to accumulate personal wealth while you can, which can be spent if and when you need it. Wasteful spending, either personally, or via government mandate, defeats that. Government is an inefficient spender so needs to be minimized. Do that and much becomes easier. Ask that inefficient government to take over things and things go to... Obama.

[JDW11235]

Agreed, which is exactly why I said:

“while getting rid of the government socialism that robs their ability to care for themselves in the first place.”