The decline of my father in law

[glatt]

FIL is still making progress in the rehab place, and they are talking about moving him back home to his apartment in the assisted living place. Could be in a couple days or maybe a week or two. So that's fantastic. He's mentally in a great place and with his back brace on, he's able to do much of what he used to.

But anyway, the bills are rolling in now, and I have to say that Medicare is teh awesome! He spent several weeks in the hospital, some of it in intensive care, and the bills that are coming in are only like $34 here, $15 there, and so on.

It's no wonder that Medicare is costing the US taxpayers so much money and the Tea Baggers want to slash and burn it. Based on my FIL's experience, it's a huge financial benefit to the people who use it.

I hope it's there for me when I'm a feeble old man with a broken back.