Seniors pay

Your editorial “No simple fixes for health care” states some valid truths. Yes, there are no simple fixes, but why is it always seniors paying the most hefty price? It offends me to call them bed blockers. Had our government built the promised number of new long-term-care beds years ago, this would be a better situation — not perfect, but better. If charging fees will help, then I suggest that any patient in a hospital bed with COVID -19 who did not get vaccinated be charged fees as well. After all, they are taking up a bed that is needed by a surgical or cancer patient whose operations have been postponed. Let’s not kid ourselves, once a long-term-care person is moved from hospital to a facility, that is where they will stay. They will no longer be a priority at their facility of their choice.

Maureen Ellis, Hamilton