Judges and Judiciary
Oct. 28, 2002
Staying Power
In less than three months, I will be slipping another card into my wallet. The card is thin and barely registers on a postal scale, yet it weighs a ton. It is - the words catch in my throat - a Medicare card. It is hard enough carrying an AARP card in your wallet.
Arthur Gilbert
Justice (ret.)
UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963
Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.
UNDER SUBMISSION
In less than three months, I will be slipping another card into my wallet. The card is thin and barely registers on a postal scale, yet it weighs a ton. It is - the words catch in my throat - a Medicare card. It is hard enough carrying an AARP card in your wallet. This new card implacably declares your 61/2 decades on earth and puts you in a class statistically marked for oblivion sooner than others. It is a heavy load to...
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