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Wife is on Medicare and the drugs were not bad priced after her insurance. The insurance was reasonable.
It still aggravated me as we paid in our whole lives with the promise Medicare would cover everything, but it was manageable.
They dropped her insurance so she had to find another. The premium is triple what she was. Now I go in about every week and her meds are around $300. I don't know how much she pays when she picks up in between.
A rough guess is it is running around $30,000 a year for health insurance and daily meds for her.
Not that the money spent is not worth it, but it is hard to cut that from your budget.
Then I go to the grocery store and pick up snacks for the grandkids.( OK, I may partake also.) $75 and they will be gone in a day.
The only good thing is it makes used farm machinery look reasonable as it has not gone up that much.
Investing in depreciable items is not as bad as it may seem.
I bought a new tractor in 2008. I am looking at similar tractors for $30,000 more than I paid for mine new. Someone has used them for all these years and is gong to get their money back, plus.
Edited by IADAVE 2/13/2025 11:52
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Am I broke and don't know it.
