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To: bgill

There’s broke.

There’s dead.

And then there’s alive but with million dollar hospital bill and you can never retire.


99 posted on 04/03/2020 11:57:42 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

I choose alive, with bills I will pay the rest of my life. I guess that makes me odd.


105 posted on 04/03/2020 12:02:50 PM PDT by LilFarmer ("Everything we do before a pandemic will seem alarmist. Everything we do after will seem inadequate")
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To: Black Agnes

The funny thing about hospital bills, if you paid a dollar on it every month, there’s nothing they can’t throw you in debtor’s prison.


128 posted on 04/03/2020 12:26:35 PM PDT by bgill (Idiots. CDC site doesn't recommend wearing a mask to protect from COVID-19)
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To: Black Agnes
you can never retire.

Retirement has barely existed as a blip in human history, outside of the very wealthy. I have always assumed it will disappear within a few generations, and people will continue to work until they are no longer able. We live in an incredible time, where regular working class people can travel the world and live in relative luxury without having to work.

144 posted on 04/03/2020 12:59:32 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: Black Agnes

I don’t think that’s going to happen. The sad thing that nobody is saying is that this may force us to become a socialist nation. Each according to his need.

It could come down to “either sociaism, or we become inhumane and just let people die.”

Trump thinks we can build a capitalist nation back up again, and I pray to God he is right, but I don’t think we are going to let people suffer and die on principle.


169 posted on 04/03/2020 1:45:29 PM PDT by firebrand
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