Do a price check on health coverage for age 65 and over without Medicare. It’s extremely expensive.
If you cannot afford a doctor you will just have to make a deal, have your family throw in, or let nature take its course.
I am very close to the mandatory Medicare age right now, and I don’t understand in a country where we are suppose to be able to live free, how we can be REQUIRED TO pay for Medicare.
In previous generations people would only pay for services they could afford, if it was out of reach for the family, the Church at times would help.
If a 70 year old man would get something that would shorten his life, or immediately threaten it, he would first weigh the cost, what he had set aside, and decide if the money was better spent as a legacy. It was not uncommon for him to weigh the money as a legacy for his family, and spurn treatment to pass the money down. Seriously, who would go for a $500K dollar heart surgery, if the way of getting it was to saddle his children and grandchildren with that debt?
Now if he wanted to ask them if they would take on this debt, it is within his rights, but if he DEMANDS his Children and Grandchildren pay for it, OR OTHERS, that is morally wrong, and a theft.
There really are worse things than death, and the indentured servitude of 50% or our labor, we owe to government is one of those things. That servitude is the price we pay for the illusion of “free stuff” from govt.
I would like to breathe the air of true freedom once. I still remember a bit of what “the old Republic” was like. I would like to be part of rebuilding that again, even if it just in a small way.