{"id":16239,"date":"2020-06-12T11:31:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16239"},"modified":"2020-06-12T11:31:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:31:16","slug":"a-healthy-65-year-old-couple-retiring-projected-to-spend-on-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16239","title":{"rendered":"A healthy 65-year-old couple retiring projected to spend on healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is estimated that a healthy 65-year-old couple retiring in 2020 is projected to spend approximately $351,000 in today\u2019s dollars on healthcare over their lifetime according to the new Milliman report.\u00a0 Milliman is an international actuarial and consulting firm, which produces estimates of retiree health costs that are updated each year, to educate employees, and retirees about the potential cost of retiree health. Although, this cost projection have gone down from last year, it should be a reality check for 401K participants who might want to think about bumping up their deferral rate or maxing out a health savings account (HSA). Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/401kspecialistmag.com\/this-is-how-much-retiring-couples-will-spend-on-healthcare\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_63354325hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x464.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8394\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_63354325hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x464-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_63354325hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x464-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_63354325hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x464.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/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>It is estimated that a healthy 65-year-old couple retiring in 2020 is projected to spend approximately $351,000 in today\u2019s dollars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-hras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16239","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=16239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16240,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16239\/revisions\/16240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}