12 - 13% of the population are responsible for most of the healthcare costs in the nation. That is why insurance companies post huge profits because their most members are relatively healthy.
You pointed out an emerging problem because that percentage is fixing to get more robust and Medicaid is fixing to get submerged soon.
“The BABY BOOMERS are 74 years old this year.”
Got a hard on for the ‘BOOMERS’ have you?
When people mob the ERs for every sniffle and cut-mostly mojados, but other people who don’t want to pay for anything, as well-it turns the costs up for all of us sensible people who pay for insurance and use it wisely-I don’t see how any med center is going to stay in business at this rate...
One size does not fit all-so before you paint us all with the deteriorating boomer brush-I don’t know where you live, but boomers in BFE -and active ones elsewhere-aren’t likely to start dropping any time soon-I’m a few years shy of 74-but I’m a boomer-I live in the middle of a rural area-like most of my neighbors, I own a business/ work for myself- in my case, as a subcontractor-in construction-I won’t go to a doc unless injured-and I don’t take/use drugs, prescription or illicit-use natural remedies only, do not eat processed food, and I work out.
After wanting to for 10-15 years, I did have my distance vision laser corrected-paid for it myself, not with medicare-which is insurance you pay for-not a freebie like medicaid is-or my supplemental Tricare insurance-I pay for both every month, just like everyone else over 65 does-insurance does not mean free stuff-for every person who runs to a doc for drugs because they have a cut on their hand or a cold, there are 3 frugal, sensible people like me who end up paying more because of their bulls***.
Everyone I know out here eats healthy and works-so I guess it must be the city boomers who will crash and burn from being morbidly obese from a bad diet-with all the side effects, no exercise, etc-they will overwhelm the system if anyone does-not people like me who don’t use the benefits they pay for unless there is a real need...
That’s just my dos centavos...