Something I keep yelling about is how much it costs to grow old with dignity in the US. If you make it to 65+ the chance of needing daily or round-the-clock care increases exponentially. Almost none of those costs are covered by insurance/Medicare.
Medicaid requires you to be indigent to qualify.
Medicaid requires you to be indigent to qualify.
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T.C. Aurelius
I keep trying to explain to people that if you are an American and 40 years old and have a million dollars in the bank, you are one medical emergency away from being destitute.
Even if you have "good insurance."
And people tell me to stop trying to get sympathy for the wealthy.
Even if you have "good insurance."
And people tell me to stop trying to get sympathy for the wealthy.
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Sometimes you're mostly okay but you decide you don't have medical conditions, or you start falling, or you're paranoid about everything but scams, or you have a specific blind spot about leaving the stove on.
The money's not going to the aides. It's going to private equity.
She could have live in health aides for this amount. Make it make sense.
If you don't have enough money to hire an attorney Medicaid will take most of what you have.
Totally unfair.
Might just be the military/vet circles I’m in, but it’s concerning that people even think that way (myself included).
half of the overall medicare spending is for the last two years of life.
People like us were screwed before we were even born.