How do you plan for a potential quarter million dollar medical bills over a couple of years?

Retric 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Good insurance is one aspect including long term disability coverage if you haven’t retired.

That’s the thing medical expenses when young are unlikely enough insurance is a viable strategy. Long term it’s worthwhile to move to a country with a less expensive medical system. You can move basically anywhere in retirement and be better off.

	▲	raw_anon_1111 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Again like I have been saying, good insurance is predicated on the open market and ACA being around and not being killed by Republicans. Even if they don’t outright kill it, they are trying to put in a “death spiral” where only sick people use it and insurance companies don’t want to participate. LTC not discriminating against pre-existing conditions is also post ACA.

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snake42 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The same way that an employed person would plan for this. Catastrophic insurance plans put a cap on how much your medical bills can be.

	▲	raw_anon_1111 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		An employed person since the ACA hasn’t had to worry about lifetime caps… Oh and catastrophic insurance plans only have to cover pre-existing conditions since the ACA - which one party is actively trying to kill.