About this bump of this old thread.....
There is another thread about long-term care insurance running here tonight. And I went into that thread and I said that I thought there was an old thread here and that I would try to find it and link it.
Well, I found it, but I could not make the link work.
And so now I am writing this post in the old thread to explain the bump which looks kind of redundant in the line-up.
When I saw the LTC topic start tonight, I began to write a dissertation in reply to the question, and then I thought, "Wait a minute. I think I wrote about this one." And sure enough, I found the old stuff. (Geez. Geez. Geez. I am now in re-runs. Oh dear.)
But this thread has lots of stuff in it with people talking about LTC. And so here it is. Bumped.
(I suddenly felt so compelled to try to get the information all into one place. You know -- on the right shelf. With the correct Dewey number. So people could find it. I don't know why I sometimes feel so compelled to do that. I just do.

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Boomer
And I hope Mr. Tony will see this and will maybe somehow join the two threads together and pronounce them "Thread and Thread." I knew I could not do that. That takes admin magic. But I tried and tried to link this one into the new one, and then gave up.