Owns a home and a six figure retirement account balance. Tiny violins.

All the old people who are getting into trouble because of life, have had their whole lives to stear politics into a more social direction to prevent all of this from happening.

So the medical system is putting an elderly person to work and on the road at that.

So if he crashes and injure himself and another person the insurance company can get money from 3 different incidents two of which were avoidable.

I bet they are in their offices saying, “TRIPLE KILL”

that’s just sad. At 76, he should be rejoicing in retirement. It’s pretty fucked up. :/

That’s sad. Not just sad, but inhumane. As a species we are closer to our destruction.

If I was staring down the barrel of cancer like that, just fucking kill me. Quit the game before my family pays through the nose for my inevitable death.

Nobody commenting is reading the article.

The headline suggests that medical bills drove them into poverty so much so that he’s had to be driving for Uber at 76. Thats not the case, and the article lays it all out.

It looks like about 25 years after the medical bills wiped them out financially, they recovered financially:

I really didn’t want to retire in my 60s, but we were getting older, and my wife wanted me to be spending more time at home. When I retired, I had some equity in my home and around $300,000 in my IRA. I also started to fund an IRA for my wife, which I built to mid-five figures. This allowed us to travel extensively within the US for the first few years. But a part of me felt like we probably weren’t going to live that long anyway because everybody around us was dying.

We should be celebrating two things:

• the fact that the ACA passed into law and that what happened to this couple in the 1990s can’t happen again under today’s law
• the hard work they did rebuilding financially to have over $350k in savings + home equity and have have a comfortable retirement to be able to afford extensive travel they did in retirement.

I remembered getting a bill in the neighborhood of $246,000 from the hospital that covered the surgery and her recovery in the hospital. We still had a whole road ahead of us for aftercare. By the end of it, the bills totaled about $300,000.

Even with my prostate cancer, pacemaker, and half a lung removed, my physical strength and stamina are remarkably good. As a mental challenge, I try to push myself in every situation I’m in. I find driving at night calming, and I like the aloneness of it.

The country with the most liberties, everybody.

We’ve known for half a century how bad social systems are. Even prisons are for profit… Bud; if you decided to stick around and grow old in the USA, I’m sorry to say, but you are a fuckin moron!