Comment on Retiring at 51 with only 3x minimum wage/SS and a fully paid off $500,000 house, savings, no restrictions on moving someplace cheap or doing work from home for benefits and spending money.

• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You could actually eat through more than that with a nasty injury in the US.

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  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you have no insurance, sure. If you have even crappy insurance and max out both your in network and out of network out of pocket maximums, you are talking tens of thousands, not hundreds.

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    • Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is only true if the insurance decides if your treatment or received health care is covered. If you happen to need something that the insurance just outright will not cover, then you foot the bill.

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      • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Fair point. Generally, emergency minimally life saving care is covered by default. That’s the point of getting insurance. I’m sure there’s many examples of that failing to hold true, though.

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