[ SECRET POST #4147 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4147 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon, 1941]


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03.
[Teen Wolf]


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04.
[The Three Investigators]


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[Brooklyn Nine-Nine]


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[Brooklyn Nine-Nine]


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[Silver Bullet]









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Comments

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

So I live in California. Other states may manage this differently, but as for health care—

When my paternal grandfather died, each of his three sons inherited a third of his estate—my dad, his older brother, and his younger brother. The eldest always managed to get by, but had never been well off, and he was tired of working dead-end jobs. And he finally had a big chunk of change. He was 62 or so, not yet eligible for Medicare, the federal government-funded (via payroll taxes) healthcare safety net for senior citizens that kicks in at 65.

He quit his job and lost his employee health insurance—something not every job provides—and was promptly diagnosed with colon cancer, and thus rendered uninsurable. The big chunk of change he’d been planning to live on went towards medical bills. And then he was signed up for a program run by the county medical center. They paid for his bills while he was alive, in exchange for a lien on his 1/3 of my grandparents’ house.

When he died, we had to sell the house to pay the cost of his bills back to the county—$167,000.00, because my uncle had no spouse or children. If he’d had children living in the house, or if I’d been living there when he died, or if the youngest brother had been living there—basically, any other blood relative—the house would’ve been sold when they died.

Theoretically, if my uncle had had kids and their kids inherited the house and their grandkids and great-grandkids did likewise, the county might not get their money back for generations. There’s even more regulations for what would happen if his hypothetical descendents sold the house, but no, if he’d had surviving family living there, they wouldn’t have been left homeless.

But this was a county—very local—program, using state rather than federal funds. I’m not even sure how it would’ve worked the next county over, nevermind in a different state.