My father is retired, in his 80’s, in great health for his age and has been on Medicare for a long time. My mother was on Medicaid and Medicare before she passed from Alzheimer’s in a long term facility, paid for by the government, mostly.
There were complaints, of course, but I complain about my insurance company more than my father complains about Medicare. My father being a retired minister could never have afforded the long term care my mother eventually needed. I’m grateful that those programs were available for my parents.
Long term care is not part of Socialized Medicine either. My F-i-L, in the UK, should have been in long term care for the last year of his life. Long term care is exponentially more expensive there than in this country. My S-i-L helped keep him in his home for as long as possible. He wasn’t in the care home long before he passed away. I hope people are aware that Nursing Homes are not paid for by the NHS.
Your good story is another example of well MediCare has worked for older Americans, who paid into the program.
My wife and I are in our late 70’s and thanks to our good private MDs and Medicare are in good health inspite of some severe temporary/acute problems resolved by our so called terrible health care.
Our many Brothers, Sisters, In Laws, Cousins in their 70’s/80’s are more living examples of how good American health care has been with private MDs and MediCare.
Whenever, we read how bad our health care is!
We need to ask ourselves, “Why do the super rich elites from the Middle East, Euro Trash Countries, the UK/Canada/NZ and OZ, and South America fly to America for the best health care they can afford?
If our health care was so bad, wouldn’t these elites would fly to Cuba, Russia, the Euro Trash countries and the UK groups.
Who in America goes to Cuba, Russia, Canada, Britain, NZ or OZ for their great health care?