Too many decisions

Well, we now have reached the age of Social Security. That means we are now bombarded with Medicare insurance and Prescription D plans and all the paperwork that goes with each and every insurance company in the United States. This is how we old folks earn our new government wage.

Yes, we read and reread, sort, unsort, stack and unstack, check it over at least three times and pray to God do we dare to throw out anything that might be important.

Decision. Do they not realize that our decision-making process is slowing to a crawl? (You have seen us in the stores.) Why would the government think that we want to do this? And now, every November to Dec. 31, we have a decision to make on which health care will take care of us. We are lucky it is the American way. We are free to make that decision, but every year?

Now I know why our folks had that stack of mail and papers on their dining room table for months on end. Decisions.

Sharon Biesen

Spokane