The Problem with Healthcare: "I was paying $1,800 a month or $21,600 a year for healthcare at age 64 (full insurance)

However, it's also true a year later I was on Medicare and that was much better.

However, I would say the biggest problem regarding healthcare likely is from ages 45 to 65. As soon as you can get on Medicare it means likely you can find a way to stay alive if you know how to access the medical system and have a good diet and a good enough life to stay alive.

For myself, I had no real health problems from around age 15 (before that whooping cough and a concussion that caused seizures from age 10 to 15). But, after that I had basically perfect health from age 15 to 45 years of age. Then I had a panic Attack (this is what they called it) which emulates a heart attack where I woke up and couldn't talk or walk and had to crawl into the bathroom and put warm water in there I believed then to die. But, it calmed me down enough to stay alive and have my wife drive me to the hospital. However, we owned two businesses and I didn't have health care basically because I couldn't afford it then. I tried to get a heart specialist to see me but none would see me then without full health care insurance at that time.

I thought to myself: "Am I going to die because I can't afford health care insurance right now even though I own two businesses?"

Within a year or two I got a divorce and I remarried and my present wife insisted I have full health care coverage. This saved my life at age 50 when I got a heart virus and almost died for about 9 months time.

Then at age 65 I went on medicare and health care saved my life first at age 50 and then again at 72 when I was able to get a defibrillator pacemaker installed through Medicare. Then in 2022 I thought I was going to die again but then they gave me a cardio conversion (taser your heart) and so the atrial fibrillation stopped and then they had me take Amiodarone to stop the Atrial Fibrillation and I'm still alive because of all this at age 77.

However, most people I knew my age are already gone like two of my best friends, one who died at age 62 because he wouldn't have open heart surgery and one who died in 2011 that was my best friend from Junior High and High School who was in the Air Force during the Viet Nam War.

The point is that without full health care coverage after age 45 it is really easy to die without it.

Though you might get into a hospital even without health care insurance on an emergency basis this isn't really good enough to stay alive long term into your 50s, 60s and 70s and beyond.

Without something like Medicare or full health care coverage most people are gone by their 50s to their 70s.

This is just the reality of life these days.

Though it's true that IF you live to be 30 you often will see 90 it's also true without good medical care from about 45 to 65 you won't necessarily live that long.

So, without regular checkups and enough knowledge about diet and exercise and good health care most people are gone between 50 and their early 70s. This is still the reality we all live with here in the U.S.