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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
We're dealing with a forced retirement situation at my house. We would have retired in 2022, when he'd be eligible for social security, and his employer would have covered his health insurance until Medicare kicked in. They shut down the plant, and he's a skilled tradesman in an almost-obsolete trade so it's not likely he'd ever make even half of what he was making before they turned him out. Unfortunately, if he DID go back to work full time, we wouldn't qualify for ACA subsidies and our health insurance was $2000/month. Currently we don't earn enough for subsidies, but neither of us is the right age or disabled so we don't qualify for medicaid either. So I'm going back to work part time, gladly, and will happily accept a low wage. And then, we'll be able to get health insurance. Til then we're just hoping to stay healthy.
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When I read about situations such as this, I realise our much maligned Health Care System here in UK. is not so bad after all.
It may have many faults, but at least we do not live in fear of falling sick with a serious illness, and not being able to afford treatment, or worse still, being bankrupted for obtaining it, because you have no health insurance.