People with mental illness 'should get jobs with health insurance and take care of themselves'

[DebJ]

24. We will be paying $18000 a year for health insurance beginning this March for two years

My husband's chronic kidney disease has advanced and so he has to retire at age 63,
two years before Medicare (unless he goes on dialysis; which we are working as hard
as we can to delay/prevent), so we have to go Cobra, and that is
the annual cost.....until September, when I just pray to God that it doesn't go up.

It's MORE than a house payment.

Plus retiring early costs us $500 a month in social security benefits and $500 a month
in lost pension.

Lose $1000 a month in income, pay $1500 more in expenses. Great deal!