“Even after all that, senior citizens still do not have the health insurance coverage the average person under age 65 has.”
Well there’s a very common sense reason for that - the health care costs for the average 65 year old is vastly higher than say a 35 year old. Coverage is going to be harder to come by.
And if Medicare is such a lousy system PLEASE abolish it. Today. The younger folks would love not to have to be stuck with the bills.
My father in law is 87 and has Alzheimers. Advanced, lives in a nursing home. Fell and cut his head. Needed stitches and in my opinion that is all he needed. Well, they performed brain scans, xrays etc. when he was taken to the hospital. Three stitches on the forehead cost the taxpayers $3800. I have no doubt this story or one like it could be told many times over every day across the country.
Bottom line is they were probably afraid of getting sued if he turned out to have a concussion or other brain trauma.