There is NO WAY an ordinary wage-earner could have saved enough to cover the sort of insurance-inflated medical bills common today. Call around and ask what various procedures and prescription medications cost. I have insurance because I worked for a University. A lot of people were unable to get work with people who offer insurance at that level. Call around and ask what these procedures and meds cost for someone without insurance.
Then make a budget that allows for rent, food, transportation, etc AND savings at that level. http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/ Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:14:56 -0700 Subject: Re: Down with the government From: jwilliams4...@gmail.com To: brin-l@mccmedia.com On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Pat Mathews <mathew...@msn.com> wrote: Besides which, we greedy geezers will pass our ill-gotten wealth down to you hard-pressed Xers and your children in due time via the normal process of inheritance, if the medical bills needed to keep us functioning don't eat every last bit of it up. Not greedy, in most cases, just poor financial planners / lack of understanding of future costs vs. savings. As demonstrated by the above comment. As a group, Americans nearing the age they expect to retire have saved far too little to support themselves and their care until they die (which is a lot longer now than it was 50 years ago). In the aggregate, there is not going to be wealth, ill-gotten or otherwise, to pass on. The reverse, actually. _______________________________________________ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
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