[ErnBatavia]

who believes health care costs in the United States could eat up 40 percent of the couple's estimated $4,000 to $5,000 monthly retirement income.

Somebody needs to do some math..and her hubby's a math teacher?

Ain't NO health plan that's gonna cost 'em 20 to 25,000 zops a year, copays included.

[OldFriend]

Medicare takes about $60 a month out of the social security check and MediGap costs less than $200 per month.

But then lefties who hate their country don't need to do the math.

[Fiddlstix]

LOL! Ain't it the truth!

[litehaus]

"Somebody needs to do some math..and her hubby's a math teacher?"...........UNION and DEMOCRAT explains it...LOL..

[Stentor]

I posted before I saw your post. I know a married couple retired in Arizona. $7000.00 + is the number. That is hardly 40% of the low end of their income estimate.

[KC_for_Freedom]

Ain't NO health plan that's gonna cost 'em 20 to 25,000 zops a year, copays included.

You could probably find one. My blue cross ppo for my wife and son takes 800 big ones a month out of my pension and the company is capped out at contributing 440 a month. So I have a plan that is costing over 20%. And I am not including co-pays or deductibles.

BTW I am a pre boomer retired to an RV and winter in the south. In the Rio Grande one can slip over the border for inexpensive drugs and med care, but its not as safe down there as it used to be. If I were to consider a foreign country, I would go all the way south to Costa Rica.

[Investment Biker]

Ain't NO health plan that's gonna cost 'em 20 to 25,000 zops a year, copays included.

We just dropped my health insurance from Humanna. It was going to cost my wife and I some $21,000 per year plus co-pays. We are both in our in our early 50's and have reasonable expenses of about 3500 per year.