[Boomer]

Hey! I’ve got an idea! How about everybody who wants to give an opinion in this thread also tells the readers where their own health insurance comes from. That could be interesting.

I’ll start.

Mr. Boomer and I each have access to recognized group plans through our former employers. A part of it is paid by those employers, but our share grows and grows with each annual renewal. We are not to Medicare yet. We do not like the constant increases as we pay more for less coverage. We pay those costs. But there are those who have worked just as hard as we have, through all these boomer-years, only to now find themselves being hit harder and harder to the point of having their retirement dreams held hostage by what they have to pay for coverage – if they can find it at all.

Do I hear some of you scratching your heads and asking, “Hey! Boomer! What’s your problem? Sounds like you got it covered. Sounds like you have figured out how to pay through the nose. Why are you glad to see the healthcare bill pass? And didn’t you used to be a Republican? Like maybe almost all your voting life? And aren’t you an investor in the stock market?”

Well, I hear you, and I could write about all of those questions. And I actually have a couple of things cooking over in Word. But I am not sure I want to get into it – a time issue makes it an ROI issue.

As one who has chosen not to enter the political forum, I was so glad to see this thread appear here in the main forum. I think it has been given special dispensation because the topic has stepped beyond politics and into history. I hope it can remain here for our opinions to be shared. Can we walk that tightrope? I do not know. But I would not bet on it.

And, of course, I know that it is not all perfect. But the refusal by so many to even acknowledge the problem, or to address it, has taken us closer and closer to turning the USA into a plutocracy sliding into place assisted by those who want a theocracy. I believe in Democracy.

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Wow! I sure did digress on that one. Oh my! -- uh, please refer back to the first part of this post if you want to see what I intended to talk about.

Boomer