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mr_lebowski

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4. And no insurance company will touch 93-yo people ... that's partly why there's Medicare ...

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Thu Jun 29, 2017, 04:02 PM

Jun 2017

You know ... it's sad that happened, and I'm sorry for your loss. But at a certain point, one has to accept the inevitable. If this was a 55 year old, I'd be pretty incensed about your story. But at 93? I'm sorry, man ... it's reasonable at a certain point to say ... it's time.

If you think there's a private insurer in this world that's going to pay for the full ride ... over and over and over ... for a 93 y.o. to get admitted to hospital ... at least without something like the ACA FORCING THEM to (by making lifetime caps illegal) ... you're crazy. Left to their own devices, Insurance Co's are FAR worse than Medicare when it comes to cutting people off when things start getting really costly.

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