My chum Robert Elisberg has a good piece up about the dismantling of the Motion Picture Home, a facility that has done so much good for folks in show biz who weren't wealthy and needed aid in their declining and ill years.
Take it as a dire sign that the Motion Picture and Television Fund folks don't think they can afford to keep that place open. It's bad enough that we have so many people in this country who can't afford and/or get health insurance. Even if all those people just die off (as some will do because they can't pay for doctors), the system is failing those who have Honest-to-God, real, paid-for health insurance…and I don't see a single projection that it won't get a lot worse unless something major is done.