{"id":10828,"date":"2018-07-01T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10828"},"modified":"2018-06-29T12:16:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T16:16:09","slug":"10828","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10828","title":{"rendered":"Health care costs in retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tail risk is a catchphrase that Wall Street likes to use to label a dramatic outlier event that upends the best laid plans. You may confront a medical spending tail risk in your 70s and beyond. Majority of older Americans are enrolled in Medicare but they still face the risk of catastrophic health care expenses.\u00a0 Many older adults are taking steps to build a financial margin of safety against steep medical expense late in life. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nextavenue\/2018\/06\/28\/the-truth-about-health-care-costs-in-retirement\/#10d9d0724401\">Read article here\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_22904159senior-overwhelmed-by-medical-costs-700x599.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8462\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_22904159senior-overwhelmed-by-medical-costs-700x599-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_22904159senior-overwhelmed-by-medical-costs-700x599-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_22904159senior-overwhelmed-by-medical-costs-700x599.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tail risk is a catchphrase that Wall Street likes to use to label a dramatic outlier event that upends the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-legislative-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10830,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions\/10830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}