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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (4621)	2/19/2008 11:43:42 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I thought you might be interested in the cost with Medicare. The government currently estimates an individual's costs for Medicare premiums, co-payments and other cost-sharing at about $3,800 a year for a single person and $7,600 for a couple. Add to that $500 per person for dental care, eye glasses, hearing aids and other items not covered by Medicare.

To: TimF who wrote (4621)	2/19/2008 1:16:40 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 42652

You have to save a lot to maintain your standard of living (except perhaps if you where starting with a low standard of living). Many people don't do that. Fortunately, most people don't have to maintain their standard of living. There's something about getting older that seems to turn off the spending gene. I see it happening all around me. I rarely buy anything anymore. I used to have a good twenty feet of hanging closet space crammed full. Now I have two and I don't wear half what's there. People who haven't experiences this may think that old people don't spend because they can't afford it. With the very poor, certainly that's the case. But for most people, the slippers they bought twenty years ago are simply perceived to "still have a lot of wear left in them."