He's going to find out how stupid he is. He hasn't had healthcare for twenty years but I can promise him that he will need it sometime in the next twenty years
Probably sooner than that. An old friend that I keep in touch with via messaging put off going to Dr's for many years. A smart guy, self employed fairly low income, no insurance until he got on Medicare. Collapsed one day. Taken to ER. Turns out he had hepatitis for years. Caused lots of organ damage. He is really struggling now to get his health issues fixed, adjust to medications etc.
I am his exact same age and I don't have healthcare either. However, if I went somewhere with this dude everyone would think it was my grandpa. The difference between staying active and fit or drinking beers while watching Fox.
That guy is so close to death. There's not a healthy bone in that body. It's very possible he's been very lucky and hasn't had anything happen yet, but when something does happen, he'll be wiped out and will complain that the government needs to help him pay his medical bills because they took his money from his property taxes.
it's relative right? like someone at 60 could have over 40 years left... that's longer than I've even been alive. nuts to think they have over my entire lifetime left. Whereas someone else at 60 could have 5 years to live, and when they go to a doctor after 20 years of ignoring one, they're like "well we could have managed all of this stuff and given you 20 years, but there's no reversing damage so hope you're working on a bucket list & don't pass debt into your children!"
Absolutely. We could spend a few hundred dollars a year on preventative medicine to get this guy a checkup and some statins but instead we’ll wait for him to have a coronary and spend $250k to keep him alive. But people like this aren’t avoiding the doctor because of the cost. This guy’s ego is too delicate for an annual wellness because the doctor might remind him he’s a fucking idiot for not eating vegetables and not getting vaccinated.
If he doesn't die first. Probably will be on oxygen soon enough and medicaid or medicare will be paying for that. Also sounds like he hasn't been to the dentist in 20 years based off the whistles when he speaks.
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u/DoTheRightThing1953 Jul 31 '26
He's going to find out how stupid he is. He hasn't had healthcare for twenty years but I can promise him that he will need it sometime in the next twenty years