{"id":26302,"date":"2026-07-22T10:20:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26302"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:20:31","slug":"more-ways-to-lower-the-cost-of-medical-care-in-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26302","title":{"rendered":"More ways to lower the cost of medical care in retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the most reported expenses in retirement is the cost of healthcare. Fidelity says a 65-year-old retiring this year can expect to spend an average of $185,500 on health expenses through retirement. \u00a0However, according to the actuarial and consulting firm Milliman, your out-of-pocket health costs could be dramatically higher or lower depending on when you retire. Richard Eisenberg, writing for Market Watch, outlines the ideal retirement strategy if you want to keep your healthcare costs down. Read Mr. Eisenberg\u2019s article\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/heres-how-to-time-your-retirement-to-keep-your-healthcare-costs-down-b1a4d427\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most reported expenses in retirement is the cost of healthcare. Fidelity says a 65-year-old retiring this year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[385,238,1996],"class_list":["post-26302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-care-finance","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26302","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=26302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26303,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26302\/revisions\/26303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}