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[Ms. Toad]

70. Free healthcare?

I want some of whatever you're smoking.

I didn't even have health insurance until I went to college. When (100%) out of pocket health care got too expensive for my parents, and they were still unable to buy insurance in their own, they turned the family farm into a corporation, with my father's cousin - to get access to health insurance which would cover catastrophic expenses. They paid 100% of the premium, and 100% of the costs until the costs reached the limit for catastrophic coverage to kick in.

So it is simply wrong that the boomerr generation, as a general rule, had free healthcare (even is you consider partial premiums and small copays "free" )

And, guess what, those rural folks who - as a general rule, had no access to health insurance - are the deepest red parts of the country. So no, they never had access to the free health care that you apparently did. Their experience was that you paid your own bills. If you couldn't manage, you turned to neighbors to help, but ultimately, if the health care disaster was large enough, you literally lost the farm or died.