What kind of mythical insurance company can pay out many times more what it takes in in premiums? Only Uncle Sam by taxing others and printing money.
You weren’t actually paying any insurance premiums all those years, you were paying taxes (that have already been spent).
So I am just to go off and die? Who would give a 70 year old man with chronic illnesses insurance in a free enterprise system? Certainly no company that wants to stay in business. When Medicare was passed, health care was affordable for most people. Now, Even with healthy savings, one hospital stay and surgery would wipe me out
Medicare did that. In my wife’s country of birth, a total hip replacement costs $12,000 US at the best orthopedic hospital in Bangkok. Here, the same procedure costs $120,000 at best when you add all the associated costs. No one who is not rich can handle that. Conservatives and Progressives are not going to do anything with that.
The option most young conservatives suggest is “let the old farts pay their own bills”. Of course the compassionate progressives have death panels.
Time for us to pack up and move. No realistic choice. Obamacore will end up like the NHS in the UK and I know several UK citizens who moved to Chiang Mai for decent health care which is not available in the UK.