Here is the initial post that i already answered but need a response to a classm

Here is the initial post that i already answered but need a response to a classmates (see below)
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?”, Revisited
In module 1, you read Roz Chast’s graphic memoir and we discussed it in Module 2. Please go back and review that discussion now. Did you learn anything in this course that helps you understand the Chast family’s experience better than you would have before you took the course? Was there anything in the Chast family’s experience that helped you understand something you read about in the course better? Would you change the posts that you made in that discussion? Why or why not?
Remember to substantively respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts after you have posted your response to the discussion prompt.
Please respond to this post.
I really enjoyed Roz Chast’s graphic memoir “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” especially because I have seen my own Mother and Aunt in her shoes when my grandparents were put on hospice and actively not getting better from their elderly ailments. Both of my grandparents were diagnosed with end stage COPD around the same time, and they ended up passing within 3 months of one another. In Chast’s memoir she uses dark humor to cope with some of the thing’s family members must endure or deal with seriously during times of loss or for planning ahead for when the day does come. On page 149 Chast writes, “Once or twice, I asked someone – a staff person at the Place, or later, a hospice person – what would happen when the money ran out. The response was always a variation of, “Don’t worry! Somehow it always works out!”” This passage of her story really hit home with me because it truly feels like nobody in assisted living, hospice or even Medicare Insurance representatives know the true answer to how things can be taken care of when “the money runs out”. I truly feel that Medicare should absolutely fund long term care, as a citizen of this country we pay into Medicare our whole lives with every job and career we stay with or start with – Medicare rates are taken out of every paycheck just like taxes. I honestly believe that it should be our right as American citizens to be able to peacefully know that we can be taken care of from the funding we have been putting our hard-working money into all our lives. There should never be a question of “if” someone at advanced age can be taken care of or not or to have to rely on “hope”.

Updated Post 12/13/23:

Since reading Roz Chast’s graphic memoir “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” along with the knowledge and insight I have learned throughout this course I do still feel the same way as I did from the first time reading the memoir. Now that I have researched more on palliative care as well as the lack of funding for in-home care aids and even designated family members it is so important for our community and country to review these areas of need more in depth and seriously. That along with the possibility of Medicare running out within the next 20 or so years, it is detrimental to the future of our advanced age generations as well as those approaching that they have the healthcare benefits that are necessary for treatment of ailments and even for preparing for their death as Chast mentions the moral burden and guilt that family members can have when being sole or primary caretakers for those that cannot do much on their own anymore and depend on their caretakers for sustaining all ways of life and treatment of ailments. As stated in my earlier discussion, Medicare rates are taken out of every paycheck just like taxes. I honestly believe that it should be our right as American citizens to be able to peacefully know that we can be taken care of from the funding we have been putting our hard-working money into all our lives. There should never be a question of “if” someone at advanced age can be taken care of or not or to have to rely on “hope”.