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I am sorry if I offended you or you took offense. You don't know me or my situation at all, especially concerning health problems. It is few people indeed who arrive at the age my wife and I are without some health history and I am quite thankful that we were fortunate enough that one of us worked for a Fortune Five Hundred Company that had as it's benefits an excellent health plan. As one of us has had over a 1/4 million dollars of health care expenses and the other more than that in the last 15 years.

This has nothing to do with "acceptance". I would like to believe that had we not had the health benefits we did (provided by her employer) we would have bit the bullet and spent the $700.00 a month or so needed to purchase that same insurance. Perhaps we would not have retired quite as soon as we did, but we at least would have, I guarantee you accepted, our fate in life and not gone on a "conservative" bulletin board complaining about it.

Listen, my whole point in posting on this thread has been to point out that the vast majority of Americans, these days, take next to no and accept very little responsibility for their lot in life.

We have lived an a spoiled, spend today and screw tomorrow world for 50 years now.

I am certainly saddened that you have had to go through what you have gone through, but it has nothing to do with the majority of people who haven't had to go through your experience, not being prepared for being laid off at age 59, which is what I believe the topic of this thread is all about. Not how to deal with devastating medical problems in life.

You took my posts totally out of context and off the topic. I in no way was personal in my response to you to the point that you should have been offended in the first place. So I think as compassionate as I feel about your situation I won't take responsibility for irritating you.