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Originally Posted by donquixote99
If you are too strapped to afford the Medicare Part B (or probably better, Medicare Advantage), you should be able to get Medicaid.
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It's not about being strapped. It is about principle. We're "self insured" via the Lord. He has been faithful.
My wife had the flu for four weeks two years ago. It was very bad. She's been fine ever since. Neither one of us have ever had a flu shot. My brother in seattle, who did have a flu shot, got it the month before. For him it was six weeks and an ER visit. But he's also fine now.
Thanks to the internet there is really no need for a general practitioner in my life other than to get a broken bone set or a prescription. Those things are dirt cheap compared to even the price of Medicare type B. And even an MRI is cheaper than a single months typical health care premium, and probably less than most plans' deductible.
And I have little need for the really expensive stuff. My dad is on a death watch right now, which is why we are in Seattle. A golf ball sized tumor in his brain has finished him off. He's in hospice and is given just a few days to live. Meanwhile, insurance will be covering about $80,000 worth of "care" that determined there was nothing they could do.
And a personal friend was completely healed of stage 4 breast cancer via the Gerson method (google it) and is now ten years cancer free.
This whole "it's crazy not to have health care insurance" culture we live in is not seeing the whole picture. If health insurance was $20,000 a month, would you have it? How about $10k, or $5k. It's a matter of cost vs benefit. As some have said, if car insurance worked like health insurance, it would pay for tires and oil changes. I can cover that myself.