Controlling Health Care Costs in Retirement

If you're a Boomer, as I am, you should know bybusiness are going down -- how are you going to
now that nothing our federal governmentmake ends meet?
promises can be counted on. They sent us intoHere are some tips to help you cut your health
wars like Vietnam for reasons that never madecare expenses, if you can't or won't move to
any sense--and still don't. They gave our veteransanother country:
disgraceful treatment in the Walter Reed Army* Get serious about improving your health: Quit
Medical Hospital. They have run our Social Securitysmoking, lose weight, manage stress, end toxic
Trust Fund like it was their personal slush fund --relationships
any private business that spent, rather than* Start a regular exercise program, such as taking
invested, such a fund would be called a Ponzia brisk walk for 30-45 minutes each day
Scheme and prosecuted.* Look into converting to a vegetarian or vegan
In this economic "recession," it's a big questiondiet: Vegetarians live longer with less chronic
mark whether Social Security and Medicare willdisease
even pay us back the money we've paid in.* Learn to use high-quality nutritional supplements
My point is that depending on the folks into take the place of expensive drugs, under the
Washington to control and actually reduce thecare of a doctor familiar with nutritional medicine
health care costs for the average American is* Find something to do that makes you happy
totally absurd. I don't have to read the bill that'sIt's not too late to make improvements in your
being debated in Congress now to be able to tellhealth, if you're still breathing. The very act of
you with full confidence: "It ain't gonna happen!"making an effort will make you feel better. Small
So, what are you going to do to limit your ownimprovements made daily can snowball into
need for expensive and possibly rationed healthsomething significant over the many more years
care services in the years of your retirement?you have to live.
Pray? Hope for the best? Move to some foreignYou can't control health care costs. You can,
country that offers reasonably-priced medicalhowever, influence your personal health from here
care?on out. Don't count on someone out there in
You probably have heard that health careWashington, DC, to miraculously make it all more
expenses are rising faster than any other costaffordable again. You will likely be disappointed.
you will face in retirement -- and since the valueGet busy on your own Health Care Plan B. Start
of your stock portfolio and your home and yourtoday!