I would feel bad if it weren’t for the fact that the elderly are going to vote for this in droves.
That’s just it, though. They are voting for things that will have marginal effect on many of them. Sure, the poorest of them will be greatly affected, but many others will either see minimal repercussions or will be dead before they have to deal with it. To them, this is a nothing burger, and they’ve already shown that they don’t care about the generations following them.
Everything that’s happening in this shit stain of a timeline leads me to stronger and stronger opinions that I’m going to facilitate my own exit on my own terms so there will be assets left for my daughter to play with after I’m gone.
No retirement. No healthcare. No hope. Fuck it. I’ll take my leave when time comes.
DO NOT LEAVE IT TO INHERITANCE
Inheritances are taxed, often heavily, and can be disputed. Give it all as gifts immediately before your death instead.
Gifts generally have much less tax associated, less paperwork and thus less legal fees. You’ll probably have to give relatively small amounts each year to avoid the taxes. Plus, you can stick around for a while and watch your daughter enjoy it.
Yep. The only way for your children to inherit is if you don’t grow old. The expensive death care facilities will take every cent you have and leave them with nothing.
I’ve actually had this talk with her. (Clarification: she’s an adult). After arguing my position on the matter, she had no issue with any of it.
Also clarification: my comments about self managed exit aren’t related to some depression I wanna go today type thing. It’s an entirely pragmatic plan of attack for future use.
The plan is logical and pragmatic. In the US, people often spend more on healthcare for the last few weeks of life than they did up to that point. Healthcare is absurdly expensive here, and end-of-life medical heroics don’t make any sense.
The tricky part will be the timing. It’s not always easy to predict when we are close to being incapacitated.
Is American health care not shitty enough for Republicans?
It would not likely benefit seniors, since the private plans limit the doctors they can see and often wrongfully deny patients’ care.
I’ll take Death Panels for $500, Alex.
lasers firing wildly
Looky there, daily double
But you see, the death panels are corporate boards, not government officials. That makes it better.
This sort of thing used to be a “third rail” issue. The current political environment is so batshit, I think that rail is long gone.
I hope I’m wrong. Privatizing Medicare would cause massive suffering.
Republican voters are so far into the sunk cost fallacy of their cult, they are more than willing set themselves on fire, so long as their ENEMIES burn with them.
To me, that’s the quintessential difference between the modern American centrist party (we don’t have a meaningful left with any power sadly) and right wing party: Most of us want Republicans to have access to healthcare they can afford, utilities that work, safe food and water, and education, we all know they fucking need that last one desperately.
Modern Republicans, on the other hand, would very much like if those that opposed them (or are even just minding their own business but don’t align with the rigid tenets of their cult) were dead, preferably very painfully while they watch.
Note all the obnoxious signs on many of their homes openly “jokingly haha” pining for the opportunity to shoot someone who gets too close to their properteh.
