To Water Pilot
Having been to the U.S. many, many times, I am certainly aware of the problems, and I fully agree to what you say. But here we are talking about a 79 year old woman, who obviously has a reasonable income. It is not all gloomy over here - it was years ago - my present income is roughly $ 230.000 less than what the lady has. There used to be a time when pension and medical care were the last things you needed to worry about. Thank God we negotiated a good pension scheme with our employer,
without the company pension I would have to line in with the poor souls you mention.