Message from @Techpriest

Discord ID: 572308231771127808


2019-04-29 06:23:29 UTC  

People contribute to medicare and don't get anything until they are old enough (65) to qualify

2019-04-29 06:23:45 UTC  

Then it turns out that you were paying $3/month to medicare because you were making shit income for 40 years

2019-04-29 06:24:09 UTC  

and 3 * 12 * 40 = $1440 over your working span

2019-04-29 06:25:28 UTC  

and using our compound interest formula and inflation calculator (assuming 2%)

2019-04-29 06:25:55 UTC  

That comes out your medicare reward should be about $34560

2019-04-29 06:26:00 UTC  

oh wait

2019-04-29 06:26:03 UTC  

that's what you should be getting

2019-04-29 06:26:10 UTC  

but your current medical bill is actually MORE THAN THAT

2019-04-29 06:26:19 UTC  

and since medicare promises to cover you as a senior

2019-04-29 06:26:25 UTC  

well fuck it you'er gonna get more than what you should have been getting

2019-04-29 06:26:33 UTC  

and then we start the unfunded liability crisis

2019-04-29 06:26:47 UTC  

having to borrow money from our budget to pay for your healthcare

2019-04-29 06:26:55 UTC  

it's not lik the government are incompetent

2019-04-29 06:27:02 UTC  

they just don't have 200 IQ to estimate this in their head

2019-04-29 06:27:42 UTC  

That’s what computers are for

2019-04-29 06:27:54 UTC  

it's not like the computers do it automatically

2019-04-29 06:27:56 UTC  

humans have to enter it in

2019-04-29 06:28:11 UTC  

Yes and they know to so...

2019-04-29 06:28:14 UTC  

tl;dr: we're not fucked yet đŸ˜‰ @Deleted User

2019-04-29 06:28:33 UTC  

But when the times come that a majority of our population are seniors

2019-04-29 06:28:35 UTC  

we'll be japan

2019-04-29 06:28:38 UTC  

and fucked in the ass

2019-04-29 06:28:51 UTC  

If that time comes, we might replicate how Japan tries to solve their aging crisis right now in 2019

2019-04-29 06:29:50 UTC  

Ah and half the country will know what its like to be disabled

2019-04-29 06:30:14 UTC  

not at all

2019-04-29 06:30:22 UTC  

People at 65 if you lived a healthy life

2019-04-29 06:30:24 UTC  

aren't disabled yet

2019-04-29 06:31:02 UTC  

Japan is having a problem with the aging crisis is due to a low fertility rate

2019-04-29 06:31:02 UTC  

True... but getting old normally has long periods of disability

2019-04-29 06:31:05 UTC  

and longer life expectancy

2019-04-29 06:31:20 UTC  

People aren't making enough kids or importing enough people to pay for their social programs

2019-04-29 06:31:32 UTC  

And since your seniors are getting older and older, their health will require more care and $$$

2019-04-29 06:31:42 UTC  

And since you said they were entitled to them

2019-04-29 06:31:48 UTC  

you cant back out of it without committing political suicide

2019-04-29 06:32:32 UTC  

Oh i wish I could have had a long healthy life but yeah having sight problems from like two weeks after I was born screwed that up

2019-04-29 06:32:40 UTC  

Ironically

2019-04-29 06:32:57 UTC  

Myopia can be cleared

2019-04-29 06:32:58 UTC  

with old age

2019-04-29 06:33:57 UTC  

That would be greater that’s what I have

2019-04-29 06:34:05 UTC  

because you develop hyperopia instead

2019-04-29 06:34:06 UTC  

But it’s not