As to the proverbial elderly who can’t play for their medicine, its a common election year theme to generate sympathy votes for the left. There are plans both governmental and private to address that issue.
No, it’s a political strip. Baldo has been political in the past, mostly on the Illegal Immigration issue.
The whole “elderly who can’t afford medicine” position is a standard pejorative position with little, if any applicability to what is actually going on. Yawn.
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