re: #538 webevintage

and I joke, but hubby and I are getting close to that age where you are holding your breath praying that you won’t lose your job/health insurance before you are old enough for medicare.

That’s what happened to my neighbor, now dying of cancer at 53 and waiting to see which comes first, the reaper or eligibility for Medicare, which doesn’t kick in until you’ve been on disability for two years. She could buy into Medicaid, which would only cost her $1,100 of the 1.5 k she gets every month. Then she’d have $400 dollars to cover her $750 rent and Cheerios.

What a great system.