To respond to the thread topic; We are paying $1600 a month for high deductible healthcare. We will RV less in a cheaper rig if Medicare is messed with.
We are 63 now and were really hoping that Medicare stays intact.
We have been paying for our own insurance for 20 years. The only time it ever went down and benefits improved were the first few years of the ACA. Sadly, that is changing.
When we did retirement planning with professional planners did anyone ever think medical costs would rise so fast and so high.
Having had a million dollar claim and spending two months in the hospital, much of it in ICU having gone in for outpatient surgery, I have more insight than many of you.
The insurance companies are greed driven.
Costs CAN be controlled but the pigs are feeding from the trough.
Medicare is well run and is very efficient. Some problems? Sure. So work on those.
A CT Scan in Germany, Netherlands, Mexico, Spain, UK costs around and under $300, which is what a Medicare facility charges and gets paid.
When insurance is involved that CT scan is over $1000 dollars.
Total rip off.
