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Not old enough for Medicare and going broke with company insurance
Aging Well | Last Active: Sep 4, 2022 | Replies (23)Comment receiving replies
Hi JoJo, I am 63 now and was able to get Medicare early due to disability. Have you tried to apply for Social Security Disability? After 2 years of being on SSI your eligible for Medicare. It sure helped me with my ongoing follow-ups after a heart transplant. If you haven't it may take a few tries to get a yes from SS but at least it may help down the road. I actually was very surprised I got it the first try and at the time inwas 58. It will require a statement from a doctor probably but with back issues it sounds possible.
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Because of having so many health issues, I was also denied SSD at 42. I swore the government was going to pay for not being able to get some of my defects looked at back then. In the 60’s and 70’s they didn’t have specialist for everything like today. So the damage done to my body got worse. My medical bills have spiraled to somewhere between 3 & 4 million dollars from neglected treatment. Right now my blood is turning cancerous, my birth heart defect is monitored by a $25,000 heart beat recorder 24/7. My kidneys are headed for dialysis, my nonexistent immune system has allowed me to catch 19 lung infections in 9 years besides the 5 cases of Covid 19 I’ve suffered through. And those are just some of my health problems, with more and more being added with each passing year. Oh for hindsight huh!!!