Well, what else can I say here? There are so many side topics ie prevention vs disease management, taxes etc.
I was just tihnking about this whole thing lately. I have heard buzz here and there that Obama etc were working on healthcare reform that might include a single payer sstem or SOMETHING.
I have not been following it much b/c I don't like to worry about things.
Then I heard something got shot down in terms of expanding healthcare to low income folks. A quote was that it was going to cover a family of 4 making 30K per year.
If all they are going to do is give more people "medicaid/or whatver the no cost gov healthcare is called" by saying you can make a little more money, what good does that do people who actually work and make more than a little over poverty? I am not for this at all b/c it takes away incentive to earn. I heard a quote about something like if you give man all his basic needs for free, you take away his will to work.
It's a big hairy mess and I guess I will just have to wait and see.
Medicare at 55 sounds great, but it's going broke as it is so I have been expecting it to increase to 70 or 75. lol, and you can plan for it then it changes and it's not there anymore.
anyway there is halp out there. I just found out my local county has a free healthcare program that gives access to dr. visits and rx and urgent care(no hospitalization) and the income requirements are much much more lax than the medicaid type no cost care. This is actually healthcare for people out of private insurance and medicaid anyway apparantly to my surprise.
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