Turning 64,,
I’m chewing at the Bit
To Quit!
Medical is the hitch.
I’ll eat Dog food to leave
But a Health issue popping up
Is my biggest concern.
I had the same concern. Check into Medashare, it’s a share based health plan. It’s much cheaper than insurance and the doctors and hospitals costs get discounted. I fractured my leg in April and it only cost me $600.00.
“Medical is the hitch.”
I had already retired when Obola f*cked up healthcare enough to cause my Medicare Advantage provider to cancel my policy.
My wife was insured through AARP, and we hated the fact that we contributed a damned nickel to those liberal bastards, so we turned to AMAC ( the Conservative alternative to AARP)
We worked through one of their insurance people ( she did a stellar job) and we ended up with identical Medicare Plan F (the best) policies through Aetna. No deductibles, and no referral crap. They started out back in 2007 at less than $200/month for each of them. I think now they are around $250.
My wife has had open-heart surgery and three major back surgeries and we haven’t had to put up a dime our of our own pockets!. l Can’t say enough good things about AMAC and Aetna.
“I’ll eat Dog food to leave...”
I recommend grain free. I have two black labs who require it for their skin. I usually taste it to know if they’re getting quality. They taste like what they say they are -the salmon and pumpkin tastes like salmon and pumpkin. And it can be stored open. Always wondered if it would be good, cheap survivalist food.
I was suddenly “retired” at 66 with a morning phone call ... impromptu (my boss and even the regional boss didn’t know it was coming) retirement lunch at noon, turn in my company laptop that afternoon. At that age I was thinking about going, and thought I was financially prepared, but I didn’t want to call it quits at all.
Health insurance ended on my last day, much to my surprise. Two weeks later (at a pay-with-cash doctor’s appointment scheduled before my “retirement”) I was told I probably had well established prostate cancer (I did, and had no clue that I did). Luckily I was eligible for Medicare, retroactive a couple of weeks, and luckily there are insurance plans that don’t question your health for people at Medicare age. Otherwise a $280 thousand (hospital retail cost) course of radiation treatment would have been out of the question. The insurance company had to pay only about $35 thousand at their contracted rate - that retail cost is a whole ‘nother subject!