[egl2019]

From personal experience, I can tell you that $6K/month is not exclusively a Silicon-Valley phenomenon.

Basically you cover it with whatever SS, pension, savings, and other assets they have. When those don't cover it, you make compromises in quality of care, your finances, and your family's life.

[mjevans]

This is actually one of the biggest reasons that socialized medicine is going to be a requirement rather than a nice to have.

Literally the cost of labor is just too high for this to not be part of a social safety net.