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Farmer-Rick

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9. Well, that bill will ensure 80% of Americans will die in abject poverty
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 10:35 AM
Jun 30

Before Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the average elderly American died of hyperthermia because they lived in shacks with little to no heat or AC, couldn't afford food and boiled their drinking water.

You can NOT save enough money to cover you through to death. It's a moving target that only about 20% of Americans are able to accomplish.

So, that bill will ensure that you will have to pay for your parents healthcare costs or provide them with healthcare yourself directly. I hope those Trump loving Maga learn how to change bedpans. So, you get that responsibility on top of you trying to save for old age.

When all the nursing homes close they are not just going to murder all the elderly in their wards. I think 🤔 Those elderly are going to go live with family or friends. If they have any family and friends who will take them in.

Medicare right now only covers 80% of medical costs. Can you pay out $40,000 a year to cover your medical care in old age? That's a bill I got when my spouse was near death (Though we didn't know it.) I did manage to pay it off.... eventually, but I was working at the time.

Sooooo, are the Nazis in charge going to set up suicide camps for the elderly so they can end their life in dignity?

We old folks need to protest constantly. What do we have to lose? At least in jail they feed you.

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