If you haven’t saved enough to pay for your own medical care by the time your in your 70s well then its time to slip away quietly.
Truth be told, if you don’t win the “health lottery” and do require any medical procedures, you won’t have saved enough to pay for it without some sort of insurance. I had a friend tell me today that she received her hospital bill for a 5 day stay which included surgery for an emergency bowel problem. The bill was for $67,000. That’s for 5 days in the hospital. And since she’s been home, she’s having to have a liquid IV diet which runs around $2,000 per week. Unless one can guarantee they won’t have illness (and no one can)...saving up will not help that much.
I quite agree. But many people have been forced to pay huge sums into the Medicare system for OTHER people’s medical care, that they haven’t been able to save enough for themselves. It’s time to stop this scheme, and stop promoting the idea that everybody has a right to all the medical care they can possibly benefit from, regardless of whether they are able to pay for it. We increasingly have hard-working responsible people, who take responsibility for their own financial well-being and healthy lifestyles, forced to subsidize those who who spend most of their waking hours lounging in front of the TV stuffing themselves. This is simply unsustainable, and the longer it goes on, the uglier the end will be.
So because I couldn't work much past age 44 due to medical problems you are advocating killing me by withholding medication in a few years? I thought your type commited suicide in the Führerbunker in 1945.
You cannot be serious.What if you need kidney dialysis or a heart transplant? What if you get severe burns and are laid up for months? How much would you have to save up for that? Then you also have to save for retirement, plus college for two kids. Sheesh you'd need 2 millon or more. Not everyone is cut out to be a millionaire tycoon wage earner.
There's Oprah, there's your barber, and the guy who paints your house. All work hard. What you are saying is that Oprah lives if she gets old and needs a heart transplant...she can pay for it. But if the postman needs one when he gets old...too bad, he can't afford it...death for him.
Is it a conservative principle that it is your tough luck if you are just an average Joe wage earner and get old and sick and can't pay all your medical bills? My mother-in-law would have died, 15 years earlier by your view.
So your suggesting everyone should have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars for their old age health care?
Thanks for the laugh.