This is all without mentioning the fact that afflictions come upon the elderly one after another, and things are a lot different in the mainland. In Taiwan, old soldiers just go to a veterans 'hospital and everything is free. In the mainland they have to pay for everything themselves.
更何況人老了今天有病，明天也有病，在大陸看病不像在台灣可以到榮民醫院，一切得自費，這也是所有回鄉定居的老兵最吃不消的花費。