Robust Retirement

Tag: Medicare

  • Finding A Good Death – Understanding and Shopping For Hospice Care

    Background Like most issues about which I post, the topic of “Finding A Good Death” arose from a personal connection. In this case when a neighbor consulted me about his sister who was being referred to hospice care after battling cancer.  While not an expert in hospice care, I have long studied seniors housing and…

  • Financial Planning For Retirement

    As with most articles on my blog, this one started with a conversation with a friend.   The friend recently turned 60 and is starting to seriously think about retiring from a professional position.   He is thinking about a range of options: fully retiring at age 62, shifting to part-time with his firm and delaying retirement…

  • The Government Will Not Pay For Your Long Term Care

    Too many middle and upper income consumers still believe that Medicare, Medicaid or some other government program will pay for their long term care or the long term care of other elderly family members. Medicare, the Federal healthcare program for those age 65 and over, pays for hospital care (Part A), physician care (Part B)…

  • The Difficult, Delicate Untangling of Our Parents’ Financial Lives

    There is an excellent article in today’s Wall Street Journal, Monday, March 28, 2016 on the difficulties of sorting out your parents’ financial affairs after they become incapacitated.   It includes a number of recommendations on steps you should take with your family while your parents are still healthy to share financial information and avoid the difficulties…

  • Our Experience with Social Security & Medicare Better Than The Private Sector Insurers

    As my bio indicates, I spent more than 25 years working in the private sector, primarily in equity research and investment banking for publicly traded securities firms.    I, like many with private sector careers and nearly everyone even slightly right of center politically, take as an article of faith that the private sector is…