People like this have no excuses for not becoming national heroes.
Rich like Elon musk ,get richer but people like me get poorer! Not fair , Elon musk like people get rich by exploiting and stealing right of other people
Who did you vote for, Jeff?
WHO DID YOU VOTE FOR, JEFF‽
As if both parties aren’t in the pocket of the insurance industry.
Why don’t you tell us?
I don’t know. that’s why I’m asking.
They just wanted cheaper eggs.
She was sent home a day after because we couldn’t afford it.
This is standard normal American thing. Can’t pay the bill? Die, scum! This isn’t new. This isn’t Trump. This is America, always has been. Be proud of it!
I’m so happy that I don’t live in that hell hole
The best healthcare in the world is what these Republicans and blue dogs say.
Maybe it is for those who can afford it.
The title is hella misleading. This guy is doing really well. Why was this posted??
Trash country is trash.
Capitalism is super cool.
Spent his whole life voting against the evils of socialism. I want to barf in his cab.
How do you know that? Article doesn’t seem to mention his voting habits, and his wife worked for an environmental testing company, doesn’t sound very Maga or even remotely Republican to me
Where does it say anything about how he voted?
Boomer construction manager, do the math. Boomers have fought healthcare reform their whole lives because other people get sick.
Oh, so it doesn’t and you’re just making a wild assumption. Cool.
@grok define prejudice
What you’re doing here is literally the definition of a straw man argument.
Right there in the statistics, probably.
Owns a home and a six figure retirement account balance. Tiny violins.
That’s sad. Not just sad, but inhumane. As a species we are closer to our destruction.
I hope monkeys take over the world. they at least would have a better chance at forming a agreeable and domestic society that isn’t run by narcissists that are grossly overpaid and have the power to put wealth in the pockets of people down on their luck(*) and who form a unjust hierarchy that classes people by their fortune and therefore prevents some people to afford housing or medical bills, and which the rich people are afraid that they will have to give some money up to pay for simple tasks like repairing roads and constructing buildings. So, naturally, the people that are living paycheck-to-paycheck have to “chip in” and “do their part in this great American economy” while trying to keep financially afloat and survive. Maybe monkeys will see earlier on that this is not the solution. Monkey for president.
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(did you know that was my wife whom you decided to-whaaa?!) from Hamilton original Broadway cast and recording by Lin-Manuel Miranda and others, on Amazon music. as you can tell I have an Alexa and listen to Hamilton quite a bit.
Nobody commenting is reading the article.
The headline suggests that medical bills drove them into poverty so much so that he’s had to be driving for Uber at 76. Thats not the case, and the article lays it all out.
It looks like about 25 years after the medical bills wiped them out financially, they recovered financially:
I really didn’t want to retire in my 60s, but we were getting older, and my wife wanted me to be spending more time at home. When I retired, I had some equity in my home and around $300,000 in my IRA. I also started to fund an IRA for my wife, which I built to mid-five figures. This allowed us to travel extensively within the US for the first few years. But a part of me felt like we probably weren’t going to live that long anyway because everybody around us was dying.
We should be celebrating two things:
- the fact that the ACA passed into law and that what happened to this couple in the 1990s can’t happen again under today’s law
- the hard work they did rebuilding financially to have over $350k in savings + home equity and have have a comfortable retirement to be able to afford extensive travel they did in retirement.
I remembered getting a bill in the neighborhood of $246,000 from the hospital that covered the surgery and her recovery in the hospital. We still had a whole road ahead of us for aftercare. By the end of it, the bills totaled about $300,000.
Even with my prostate cancer, pacemaker, and half a lung removed, my physical strength and stamina are remarkably good. As a mental challenge, I try to push myself in every situation I’m in. I find driving at night calming, and I like the aloneness of it.
If I was staring down cancer like that, just fucking kill me. Quit the game before my family pays through the nose for my inevitable death.
The country with the most liberties, everybody.
We’ve known for half a century how bad social systems are. Even prisons are for profit… Bud; if you decided to stick around and grow old in the USA, I’m sorry to say, but you are a fuckin moron!
