Compass
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Regional Vice President of Sales The Retirement Plan Company
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Bates & Company, Inc.
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AimPoint Pension
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Loan & Distribution Specialist AimPoint Pension
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Defined Benefit Combo Cash Balance Compliance Consultant Loren D. Stark Company (LDSCO)
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The Real(ly Manageable) Cost of Health Care in Retirement
Nerd's Eye View Oct. 17, 2018
"[W]hile health care costs may cumulatively add up to a lot over a multi-decade time horizon, they do so in ways that can be largely planned for in advance, saved for with both retirement savings itself or using Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) as a supplemental retirement savings vehicle, managed by making good Medicare enrollment choices, and adjusted for (typically-known-by-retirement) chronic health conditions. Or simply funded by Social Security payments, which for a married 65-year-old couple earning merely 'average' benefits, amounts to a lump sum equivalent of more than $600,000 anyway[.]"
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