Not everyone wants to live to 90 and be confined for the 10 years prior.
My stepfather lived to the age of 88 and was active every day of his life. He lived alone without any assistance. His friend, who usually checked up on him every day, found him dead on the floor one day of an apparent heart attack.
If you eat right, exercise, and generally live a healthy life, you can be like my Dad--keep going strong until the end just sneaks up on you without warning.
Living longer doesn't necessarily mean living for years in a debilitated state.
Agreed. I have mixed feelings about much of modern medicine, but I think individuals have to make their own choices.
Things I find “curious” though — women used to be told to get breast cancer screenings early and often. It was important! Then after Obamacare was passed, women were told that screenings didn’t help all that much and should not be done until much later in life. To me, this was an obvious cost-saving move which was going to cost lives.
I’ve noticed other things too over the past few years. Medical guidelines have shifted so that people are encouraged to save money and shoulder some level of additional risk.
Whether this is good or bad, justified or unjustified is a separate issue. To me, it is obviously part of Obamacare and a lowering of our standard of living.
Ain’t that the truth!