Charging for seniors’ and children’s eye exams is age discrimination
By Lethbridge Herald on October 11, 2025.
Editor,
I think it is reasonable for all Albertan to ask why the UCP feels justified in instituting age discriminatory surcharges on individual annual comprehensive eye exams for Seniors ($49.) and parents of children and youth ages 8-19 ($24.each individual)?
Perhaps Lethbridge MLA Nathan Neudorf might provide a public response in the Herald explaining these age discriminatory and punitive charges are being unloaded by those least able to afford them?
Carol Williams
Lethbridge
6-5
Let me guess. You are so entitled and enthralled with yourself that someone else should be paying for your eye exam. Ha. And another one joins the UCPDS and SDS crowd. Lethbridge Herald letters and comment board are full of them. Welcome to the mob.
O, to breath the rarified air of the Olympians looking down on the mob scrabbling their way from day to day, reaching a trembling hand to others in need, comforting the stranger at their door, generously sharing with those who go without. On their ethereal pedestal (or, more likely, under the nearby bridge) Bucky sits smiling, imagining heartless acts like morphing into a swan (apparently, it’s a god thing to do) and running amok among the naive and vulnerable, or simply opening a coal mine upriver.
Let me guess, buckwheat. You are so entitled and enthralled with the yourself that you cannot see that this is a large expense for some seniors. If the government wanted to base cost on income that would be acceptable but to target all seniors with this cost is unconscionable.