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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This problem is really hard, there is no easy fix.

I feel for the uneducated.  A nurse that has worked for 50 years and is not prepared for retirement baffles me.  That is a good paying job.  What happened?[/quote]
Medical bills happened. They happen even to “the educated.”[/quote]Yep, my brother was a nurse.  He broke his back and couldn't work anymore.  He did get disability but it wasn't enough to cover his bills and my sister and I had to help him out financially until he died.[/quote]

My brother made a great living, had tons of savings, and two houses.  But he was working as a contractor and when he got cancer in his mid-40s could no longer get insurance.  Treatments ate up most of his savings and he had to sell one house.  He's lucky because he still has the other one (and because he is currently cancer free), but no longer has the cushion of savings. And if healthcare returns to pre-ACA type discrimination against pre-existing conditions, he will be scrwed if he gets kicked off insurance and his cancer returns.[/quote]

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