{"id":16665,"date":"2020-08-18T11:18:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T15:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16665"},"modified":"2020-08-18T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T15:19:07","slug":"the-potential-of-high-health-costs-in-retirement-and-what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16665","title":{"rendered":"What to do about the potential of high health costs in retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s retirement can last twenty or thirty years so the chance of needing medical care is significant and costly.\u00a0 So what are your options? Some people go for long-term care insurance but for those who are already ill or in poor health, you may not qualify for coverage or may only qualify for a limited amount of coverage. Fortunately, there are a few things you can do to make sure you\u2019re in the best possible position. Read article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbesbooksauthors\/2020\/08\/17\/navigating-the-potential-of-high-health-costs-in-retirement\/#1c40a5785216\"> here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/health.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11922\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/health-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/health-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/health.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>Today\u2019s retirement can last twenty or thirty years so the chance of needing medical care is significant and costly.\u00a0 So<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16665","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=16665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16667,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16665\/revisions\/16667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}