(This article originally appeared on GoBankingRates.com.) As you plan for retirement, it’s important to stay on top of changes that can affect your retirement accounts, Social Security and investment vehicles. The following nine ways retirement is changing in 2016 could impact your saving strategy and might require you make adjustments to your retirement plan to…
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(This article previously appeared on GoBankingRates.com.) Because retirement planning isn’t a straightforward, uniform process, you have to learn how to look for hidden costs. If you want to get your retirement savings on track, make sure you’re not overlooking one of these six retirement expenses: 1. An Emergency “Some people do a really good job…
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By 2050, people aged 65 and older will make up more than 20 percent of the U.S. population. Due to medical advancements and public health initiatives, people are living longer than ever before. However, life expectancy isn’t necessarily a good indicator of health, because longer lives aren’t necessarily healthier lives. And the amount of spending…
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How would Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders deal with retiree health care costs if they’re elected? It’s a big deal: The mutual fund giant Fidelity estimates that a retired couple, both aged 65, can expect to spend an estimated $245,000 on their health care, not including any long-term care expenses. Taking the presidential…
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The United States spends more on health care than any other wealthy country. Yet, it ranks dead last compared with 10 others overall as well as for affordability, equity and health care outcomes (it ranked next to last for administrative efficiency). A new report from The Commonwealth Fund shows that reducing the income gap between…
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A study published in The Lancet medical journal last week showed that heart stents didn’t help patients with heart disease who were having stable and predictable chest pain. The results engendered disbelief from interventional cardiologists — the physicians who place these stents — who offered descriptors like “unbelievable” and “humbling.” Their sense of bewilderment wasn’t…
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(This article originally appeared on GoBankingRates.com.) As you plan for retirement, it’s important to stay on top of changes that can affect your retirement accounts, Social Security and investment vehicles. The following nine ways retirement is changing in 2016 could impact your saving strategy and might require you make adjustments to your retirement plan to…
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(This article previously appeared on GoBankingRates.com.) Because retirement planning isn’t a straightforward, uniform process, you have to learn how to look for hidden costs. If you want to get your retirement savings on track, make sure you’re not overlooking one of these six retirement expenses: 1. An Emergency “Some people do a really good job…
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By 2050, people aged 65 and older will make up more than 20 percent of the U.S. population. Due to medical advancements and public health initiatives, people are living longer than ever before. However, life expectancy isn’t necessarily a good indicator of health, because longer lives aren’t necessarily healthier lives. And the amount of spending…
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How would Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders deal with retiree health care costs if they’re elected? It’s a big deal: The mutual fund giant Fidelity estimates that a retired couple, both aged 65, can expect to spend an estimated $245,000 on their health care, not including any long-term care expenses. Taking the presidential…
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The United States spends more on health care than any other wealthy country. Yet, it ranks dead last compared with 10 others overall as well as for affordability, equity and health care outcomes (it ranked next to last for administrative efficiency). A new report from The Commonwealth Fund shows that reducing the income gap between…
The post U.S. Health System Ranks Last Among Wealthy Countries appeared first on Next Avenue.
A study published in The Lancet medical journal last week showed that heart stents didn’t help patients with heart disease who were having stable and predictable chest pain. The results engendered disbelief from interventional cardiologists — the physicians who place these stents — who offered descriptors like “unbelievable” and “humbling.” Their sense of bewilderment wasn’t…
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In his Ajijic area office in Mexico, neurosurgeon Dr. Gabriel Varela listened to me patiently and without interruption for 10 minutes as I went on and on about my shoulder and arm pain. After he was sure I’d finished, Varela smiled reassuringly and waited a beat. Then, with much greater efficiency of language than I…
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As nearly everyone knows, America’s health care costs are astronomical and likely to continue rising. A Health Affairs study just projected national health care spending will grow an average of 5.5 percent every year through 2026. As Martin Gaynor, an economics professor at Carnegie Mellon University said at last week’s West Health Institute 2018 Healthcare…
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Between a third and a half of people age 45 to 59 and a quarter of those 60+ went without needed health care in the last year due to its cost, according to a troubling new survey from the West Health Institute and NORC at the University of Chicago. “We were surprised by the magnitude of…
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Reading through the new Financial Capability in the United States 2016 study from the FINRA Investor Education Foundation, one thing kept popping up: generally speaking, Americans 55 and older are faring, and feeling, much better economically than the rest of the country — and particularly compared to Millennials. Their “financial capability” has improved since the…
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You know your surgeon’s in-network, but what about your anesthesiologist? What about the doc performing an emergency procedure? Is she covered by your insurance? Often the answer is no. PBS NewsHour recently delved into the problem of surprise medical bills and shed light on a painful problem that is remarkably widespread: Patients going in for a…
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(This article appeared previously in Kaiser Health News.) The federal government released its first overall hospital ratings based on quality last week, slapping average or below average scores on many of the nation’s best-known hospitals while awarding top scores to dozens of unheralded ones. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rated 3,617 hospitals on…
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Wall Street research often dwells on what’s known as “tail risk,” a catchphrase for an dramatic outlier event that upends the best laid plans. So here’s a warning: you may well confront a medical spending tail risk in your 70s and beyond. That’s the strong takeaway from a recent study by five economists and it…
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Roughly half of employed Americans (48 percent) aren’t saving any more for retirement this year than last and 13 percent are saving less, according to a new Bankrate.com survey. What could help Americans — and you, in particular — save more? A noted retirement analyst and a family physician have a surprising answer: Get healthier.…
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