{"id":14191,"date":"2019-10-07T08:42:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T12:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14191"},"modified":"2019-10-07T08:44:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T12:44:37","slug":"14191","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14191","title":{"rendered":"What healthcare can cost you in retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">According to Fidelity investments\u2019 annual analysis, a healthy couple retiring at age 65 in 2019 can now expect to shell out $285,000 on health-care expenses in retirement. The analysis, which assumes the couple are eligible for Medicare, includes premiums, copays and other cost-sharing expense, along with prescription-drug costs. Two-third of retirees said dealing with health issues was among their top worries about retirement. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/10\/06\/heres-how-to-keep-health-care-costs-down-in-retirement.html\">here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7924\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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>According to Fidelity investments\u2019 annual analysis, a healthy couple retiring at age 65 in 2019 can now expect to shell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191","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=14191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14194,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions\/14194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}