Bill,

if you are happy with your medication and pay for it - even if via insurance - good for you.
My father at age 85 nearly died, to a large degree from being multimorbid and eating pills for every item - plus painkillers for his spine and legs, then that cocktail masking pneumonia and a slight stroke same time. Saw him Saturday, packed him off into ICU and he pulled through even if his chances of surviving 7 days were 10 - 25%.

After that reduced pills to minimum, 1/3 of previous and exchanged pain killers with a sprinkling of rat poison.
Had at least once a month a long talk on health and his aims - for instance staying off cancer hormone treatment and not removing the prostate, as chances for death on other reasons looked "fine" as prostate cancer is not fast. Also payed for 24H care at home, went to every doctor with him and needled him to move his behind more often from his chair. Resulted in 6 relatively good year (with pacemaker, 2 strokes, teeth and back surgery interwoven) and 3 years in which he had lost will to carry on, but did not want to pull the plug.

I still think medication in the 10 years before 85 cost him 2 or 3 years and dampened his health at the end - better diet and more movement would have been better. Picking best doctors and reading up on each issue did not save a lot, but probably improved length and quality of remaining life.

Avoiding vaccination and letting tax payer foot the hospital cost is stooopid. But here same rules apply...

>>apnews article not found from here - but at 1200 a pop monoclonal treatment a lot better for pharma earnings than less than 75$ for 3 sohts of mRNA .
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>A few years ago a hard-ass lady Indian-American cardiologist gave me a few choices:
>a. die
>b. spent a lot of time in the ER.
>c. eat a lot of pills every day that make big pharma rich and annoy the hell out of me but keep me alive.
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>The outcome:
>A. Don't mess with that lady cardiologist.
>B. They know me at CVS by my first name. I'm probably sending some of their kids through college.
>C. I have a hard time climbing stairs, but I routinely shoot my age on a golf course. Want to try me?
>D. Want a team match? My older brother has a couple of stents, a pacemaker and enough pills to make CVS insanely happy.
>We are available if oxygen is nearby.