And in Sudan she would be a child soldier or a rape toy. What does this have to do with what actually happened?
Living in the US without health insurance is a ticking financial and health bomb. Even I, as an immigrant, knew that. That's why I paid through my nose to have insurance for me and my family when I was an independent contractor.
She lived day-to-day, didn't bother to plan even short term future, it's completely her fault.
At 83 she almost definitely qualified for Medicaid, so she did have health insurance. However many health insurance plans have limits and high deductibles or disqualified expenses that can send a low income person bankrupt anyway. Quick quiz, which treatments for ovarian cancer would your plan cover and what are the deductibles? How does that compare to a plan you could buy on the individual market as an 83 year old woman?
If she wasn't paying payroll taxes, that would be the fault of the employer who is supposed to deduct them, and where she had worked for 25 years, no? There is no minimum income you have to pay it on as far as I am aware.
If you're living paycheck to paycheck, planning for retirement isn't on your list of high priorities. Paying your rent, and buying food is, and those little unexpected expenses like new tires hit hard.
It's great that you're fortunate enough to have enough income to be able to plan for retirement at 25.
> She lived day-to-day, didn't bother to plan even short term future, it's completely her fault.
Nobody should have to go without healthcare just because they didn't plan ahead or didn't do the right set of steps. Health care should be available for anyone without putting the burden of being eligible for that care on individual people.
Living in the US without health insurance is a ticking financial and health bomb. Even I, as an immigrant, knew that. That's why I paid through my nose to have insurance for me and my family when I was an independent contractor.
She lived day-to-day, didn't bother to plan even short term future, it's completely her fault.