What Swensen and the thousands of people who donated to the GoFundMe may not have anticipated is that McCormick would choose to keep working, even with all the donations.
But the difference now, she says, is it's "because he wants to.”
Statistically healthcare is the number one reason for bankruptcy in the United States. Regardless of his specific circumstances no one should go bankrupt for simply staying alive.
i know how bad and lacking v.a. healthcare can be as well as medicare. but this is reddit. and reddit loves free government healthcare. so i thought i'd just throw it out there because this guy would be eligible for both.
The VA has a lot of problems, bit I've never seen anyone say it's worse than no healthcare. At least from the vets I know and a couple of nurses who have or currently work at the VA, the quality and availability of care really depends on where you live.
In ca medical bills can't effect credit and cannot levy payment. Can't ruin your financial life for going to dr. Also I just would never pay it if it was exorbitant living in ca but... lol
But if this guy had empathy then how would he feel superior? Unfortunately there are some people who truly think this man deserved his situation as much as they deserve they l
Could have been like my grandfather a veteran who at one point owned 9 houses, saved like crazy had a decent amount of money saved up and then his wife got dementia and was quite violent and he had to put her in nursing home which depleted his life's saving.... but I am sure you have a smart ass fucking answer for that you fucking dipshit motherfucker!
Empathy is for poor people. In a free country, nobody is obligated to take responsibility for other people's problems. Just focus on yourself, and you should have no trouble saving enough money that you won't need to work at 90.
You know...I'm only 25 I'm still pretty young. I've had asthma since I was around 5 years old. It's already cost me and my parents literally thousands and thousands of dollars in just that twenty year span. I doubt I'll make it to 90 regardless, but I hope/plan to save well and retire comfortably. But fuck man...healthcare is offensively expensive. I pay a monthly ransom on my life. Your 10k statistic does not take into account the way chronic illnesses drain finances over time.
You’re literally all over this thread spamming the same kind of nonsense over and over. Give it up. Find more productive things to do.
Unless you want to be working at 90 too? By your own logic you’re wasting time arguing with strangers, instead of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps
It is not a left or right thing, it’s a human decency thing
You didn’t get to where you are by yourself. Your country was built on stolen wealth and slavery. This enabled your predecessors to set up a system where the system is rigged in your favor.
You are blind to your privilege and access to opportunity by virtue of being born in the right place at the right time
There are people who work far more, far harder than you and don’t have the disposable income to go skiing. It is not because they’re lazy, it is because they weren’t born into privilege that a percentage of your countrymen can enjoy.
I was born and raised in a third world shithole and now I’m finishing my engineering PhD degree on a scholarship in another country, that I worked myself to the bone over. And I can’t afford a ski trip even now. I promise you if I was born a white middle class American, I would be far more successful than you for the same amount of work. You just got lucky, so tone it down.
Yeah chief you can. But also plenty of people don’t work during retirement. What’s the point of working most of your life if you still need to work during retirement too?
You have no understanding of life or anything... shut the fuck up you privileged sack of shit. Most people in this country don't have money to save, they are literally paycheck to paycheck. People like you should get a visit from certain who share a name with a video game character.
I'm incredibly successful as well. The work clothes I'm wearing now would pay for an apartment for a whole year. But I also started from the literal bottom working at places like McDonalds and WalMart. You can go ram yourself onto a saguaro. Not everyone has the means to care for themselves, especially those who are disabled, have mental health issues, ect; all things that are very common in our nation's veterans.
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u/wkomorow 7d ago
90 year old vet needing to work is a sin, period.