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To: Bonefish who wrote (980830)

11/10/2016 7:45:25 PM

From: koan

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Most of my family are farmers. And I watched as they grew old how they had to sell off their land to pay their medical bills. I am pretty good with probability, and so I knew it was nuts to risk humongous medical bills if something should happen to me. Remember the plutocrats have it set up so that one of the things you cannot file bankruptcy on are medical bills. We will see a lot more of that stuff now.

So when I started my work career, my state had a tremendously good medical plan and it only took five years to get vested in those days. So I went to work for the state to get medical benefits for the rest of my life when I retire. They had a program when I was about 50 to give the higher-paying positions an option for early retirement. And with that early retirement, I got state medical benefits.

And then when I turned 65 I have Medicare and the state benefits. So I pay pretty much nothing. I pay four dollars for prescriptions and that is it. But I planned this and went without work that could of made me a lot more money when I was younger because I was afraid of not having medical insurance.

Now that I am old and suffer from arthritis and watch how so many of my friends and people I know don't go to the doctor even when they are deadly ill because they can't afford to pay for it I am glad with what I have.

Nevertheless, I always fought for universal healthcare with single-payer, not because I needed because I knew everybody else needed it and we were the only Western democracy that did not have it.

The only reason we have Obamacare and not universal health (medicare for all) is the Republicans blocked it.

And now I doubt that I will see it my lifetime.

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I suspect you're on Medicare. Like $106/month? Do you even opt for the supplement?