Fluffy retorted:
"What? You have insurance? I thought you were one of those independent minded types who thought that people should pay for their own health care!! Now it turns out you are one of those pinkos who thinks it's OK to pay for other people's health care when you aren't sick and to have other people pay for you when you are!"
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Fluffy, I knew that Cecilia walks around with her head in a fog, but now I see that you don't have a clue about what happens to US citizens when they reach 65 years old either. At the time, neither did I.
As apparently I am the only person on this board that has reached retirement age, and as I am apparently the only one that knows from experience how the system operates, here is your lesson on retirement and health insurance.
Listen up Cecilia, Feathor, RLB, and any other Fluffy quasi-socialist toadies living in the US, because this is in your future.
I actually retired at age 60, when my main client was bought out by Wells Fargo bank. I continued to buy my health insurance from Blue Cross until 6 months before I reached 65 years old. That was when Blue Cross informed me that upon reaching age 65, and eligible for Medicare, they would no longer sell me standard health insurance.
What a surprise; a company telling me they would no longer sell me their product! They did tell me they would sell me supplemental health insurance after I signed up for Medicare. So off I go to the Social Security office to find out what the (bleep) was going on. Here is what I learned at the Social Security office.
1. Upon reaching age 65 no company would sell me standard health insurance, because upon reaching age 65 I was eligible for Medicare.
2. Upon reaching age 65 I was also eligible for Social Security retirement.
3. In order to sign up for Medicare I had to first sign up for Social Security retirement, although I could delay collecting any money from Social Security retirement until age 72 if I chose.
So if you want full health insurance coverage after age 65, you have to first sign up for retirement, then sign up for Medicare, then buy a supplemental policy that covers the things that Medicare doesn't cover. You could opt out of all the above and pay cash, but then ObamaCare kicks in, and you are hit with his additional penalty for not having insurance.
Welcome to the real world of health insurance at age 65.
Fluffy, if you ever do find a clue, put it in a lockbox, so you can refer back to it when you run out of bullshit.
