From HuffPo: According to a new survey commissioned by Nationwide
Financial and conducted by Harris Interactive, 46 percent of people 55 or older
who have assets of at least $250,000 and plan to retire by 2020 say they are
"terrified" that health care costs will foul up their retirement
plans and 30 percent of those already retired reported the same anxiety. A
smaller proportion of soon-to-be-retired Americans, 18 percent, is "fearful"
of bankruptcy because of health care costs as are 6 percent of retired people,
according to the survey.
These older Americans have good reason to worry, especially
since the survey reveals they have an inaccurate picture of what their health
care costs will be once they retire. Respondents on average predicted health
care would cost them $5,621 a year out of pocket, but expenses could be almost
twice that, according to Nationwide Financial. Of well-off people planning to
retire by 2020, 43 percent say they don't even know what their medical expenses
will be in retirement.
“Americans -- even those who have diligently saved for their
golden years -- are not prepared for the reality of health care costs in
retirement and don’t really understand how Medicare works,” said John Carter,
president of Nationwide Financial Distributors. Harris Interactive conducted
the online survey of 1,250 older Americans for Nationwide in January……
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