ElizabethWingfield ๐งโ๏ธ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ธ
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07-07-2012 23:25:28
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Iโve learned a lot helping my family get my dad into hospice but one of the biggest realizations Iโve had is that our country is facing a geriatric financial time bomb. It is absolutely insane how much elder care costs. For my family if we were to have someone 24/7 itโs $450k a
We have to fix this system. Over the next two decades over 100 million people in our country will go through some version of the same thing. If we donโt build a better system itโs going to financially destroy millions of families and crush our economy as people quit their job to
David Hogg ๐ง Sorry to hear about your dad. We went through that with my mom about 5 years ago. Her personal care home was $3500 monthly here in PA. Itโs probably twice that now. Who has that income each month?
Jim Stewartson, Counterinsurgent ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ๐๐ When he finally snaps, it'll be heard around the world. It will be felt in your belly like a base drum, and I don't think that he is that far away.
David Hogg ๐ง Not to mention that Medicaid requires you to spend down almost everything just to get coverage for more advanced aging care
David Hogg ๐ง I'm planning on committing suicide first so I don't have to worry about how much it will cost for my elder care when the time comes.
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David Hogg ๐ง The answer is the same in both cases. We need to stop electing Republicans. Their constituents are the wealthy and the wealthy don't care about our families. They care about low taxes for the wealthy.
David Hogg ๐ง It sickens me that so many aging people drain their entire savings in order to die as comfortably as possible. Itโs barbaric to me. Until you go through it with a parent you canโt understand the magnitude. Families canโt even properly grieve bc thereโs too much financial stress.