Amen.
What most people don't realize is that the decisions you make now with your money are a choice between what you want now and all possible future uses of that money. Do you have a DVD collection, and a TV? You've chosen that your enjoyment of those things now is more important than saving that money and using it to extend your life later. Seems reasonable, but when you don't have that money when you're older and the inevitable medical expenses arrive, is it a good decision?
This isn't a serious problem until other people are paying for your care, and you decide that their DVD's and TV's aren't more important than helping an 80 year old woman live another year or two. Surely we'd all give up most or all of our entertainment expenses to save lives, right? And well, in all honesty, you don't really NEED that second car, and you don't really NEED to heat your house to over 60 degrees F to live...
But nobody thinks about things in these terms, even though this is the exact decision you have to make when talking about health care.
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