If you are 66 and retired, you are already in the socialized medicine system, and your government provided health insurance program writes a blank check for any treatment a doctor thinks necessary. Personally, I think there should be resonable limits, like if you don't have a 5% chance of living for 5 years after the treatment, you should have to pay for your own Hail Mary procedures or do without, your choice. About 40% of Medicare funds are spent in the last 6 months of life, and it's breaking the system. In many cases, the desperate last ditch medical procedures are what actually kill people.
Americans need to get over this death phobia and realize it happens to all of us. If you are going to die, drugs to make you comfortable are what you need, maybe along with some counseling to get you used to the idea that you are soon going to be toes up.
Obamacare is a private system that will require everyone to have health insurance instead of waiting until they get sick and then mooching off the rest of us. Hospitals and docs can sue them for the bills, but few people have the assets to pay, and bankruptcy courts allow them to keep their primary residence even if it is worth . Pensions and retirement accounts are also immune from garnishment, which means the country is full of well heeled deadbeats welshing on their debts while poor people end up homeless and lose everything.
I realize the Republicans have spent demonizing health insurance, but they are wrong.
