<p>But Bay, on another thread you said this:</p>
<p>“My 85-year-old fathers spends several days a week going to the doctor on your dime, thank you. (He has gap coverage through my mother’s former government employer!). And he has $1mill+ in the bank.”</p>
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<p>Isn’t that more or less the same thing? You are happy to preserve your inheritance, even though your father could afford medical care on his own.</p>
<p>I’m not saying your family makes a morally wrong choice here - the incentives are what they are. But you could easily see someone else saying, “Wouldn’t those health care dollars be better spent on poor children?”</p>