How many here fall into the category of the age range of 54 - 64?

[Texin]

72. I'm turning 63 in a few months.

I'd hoped fervently that this wouldn't come to pass and now I'm worried and, honestly, despondent. I've had private insurance policy through BCBS since about 2005 (following leaving my job and enrolling in COBRA). When that policy was first issued, there was a six-month waiting period because I'm an asthmatic and have hypertension. Every fucking year the rates have gone up steeper and steeper and my husband and I both have been just waiting it out until I'm Medicare eligible. I don't know what will happen now. I expect I'll face cancelation of that policy or the rates will be so high I don't know whether we'll be able to afford to pay them. My hypertension drugs are generic and don't cost that terribly much, but the drugs that control my asthma are another matter. I take two, and the Flovent is terribly, terribly expensive - or, rather, it would be if I wasn't just paying a fraction (through the existing insurance) of what it would cost otherwise. Without these medications (all of them including the hypertensive drugs) I expect I wouldn't live very long.

Now I'm worried that they're going to go after Medicare. I'll believe they'll do it. What the fuck else do they have to lose, really? They've demonstrated that they couldn't wait to touch that third rail and throw millions and millions of folks off their healthcare and endangering policies of those insured through their employers. Who would be fool enough to believe that these hit men for the Russian mob wouldn't go after the last social safety net too? I think they will and it will all be in the name of their godforsaken, fucking billionaire boys club tax cuts.

Fuck these guys. God damn them to the hell they so richly deserve. Burn there shitheads. That's what god purportedly is supposed to do to murderers and these cretins have just accomplished murder as sure as the day is long.