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HAVE A GREAT BIRTHDAY MEL...MEDICARE IS A YEAR AWAY!
Posted by Naples International Group on Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 at 4:39am.Today is my 64th birthday and I consider myself rather fortunate that I have managed to outlive my father by some 10 years, although I’m not sure why that is. Maybe it’s the luck of the draw or more so because we have come a long way medically and our generation is just living longer.
Since turning 60, I have been virtually wishing my life away. I can’t wait to get to 65! No it isn’t that my real estate career isn’t prospering, because it is. It isn’t the fact that I want to retire, because I can never see myself doing that and I truly love the work that I do. It is the fact that when I turn 65 I am elidgible to begin receiving medicare health benefits, and if that isn’t a sick reason to wish your life away, I don’t know what is.
I don’t think that I am the only one who has experienced those thoughts either. What I find is that there is something desperately wrong with our country when you begin wishing that you were older than you are simply to get affordable medical benefits. Normal health insurance premiums are absolutely through the roof and not in the least affordable for most Americans.
Republican or Democrat and politics aside, it’s damn well time that something was done about it!
V.K. [Mel] Melhado PA
Downing-Frye Realty, Inc.
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