Please tell me I'm wrong about this...

[mentalsolstice]

12. My grandmother's caregivers were her children

By the time she required full-time care, all four of her children were receiving SS and Medicare. It was her wish to stay in her home with her kids taking turns caring for, and it was a situation that went on for 5+ years. This arrangement would not have been possible had her children didn't have those benefits, instead having to scrounge for money to live off of and worry about where their own healthcare was going to come from.

I suspect many younger seniors will realize that although they've "got theirs", it will still be to their detriment if their children's benefits are taken away. A person who is 65 will have to consider what's going happen when they're 85 and they won't be able to rely on their 65 yo children for assistance because they're facing many more years of full-time work as their benefits were taken away from them.

And then there are those of us without children, we'll really be screwed...