That’s a good point: If I hang on a good while, will Medicare even still be there, and more so for my wife?
An awful lot of this boils down to a system with unsustainable costs, many of which are not even directly care related. Spending almost 18% of GDP on health care (this figure seems to vary a bit, and I’ve seen projections of over 20% by 2025) is disastrous, in the long run.
Expanding the above a bit, I look at how much is taken out of the economy by government (including the effect of over-regulation and an entirely over-the-top-complexity Federal Code including the Tax Code), how much by health care, how much by increasing corruption, how much by an overly litigious society... Purely from an economic standpoint, much less a moral view, my God, we have gradually submerged our beloved country in heavy mud and we wonder why it founders and moves so sluggishly...?
(Well, ok, most FReepers don’t “wonder”!)
It seems hopeless, doesn’t it?
That’s why we’ve Gone Galt. Or a modified version of it.