# America's Elder Crisis, Medicare Edition

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 4, 2021, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-elder-crisis-medicare-edition/937146 "2021-03-04T05:55:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-elder-crisis-medicare-edition/937146/104 "2021-11-03T21:41:48Z")

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Wait until you hit 65. You’ll need a shovel to dig yourself out of the mail. (They apparently don’t believe us geezers know how to use email.) And it goes on every year, five years and counting for me.

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