{"id":2978,"date":"2013-01-21T07:37:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T13:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:42:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T13:42:00","slug":"survey-retirement-medical-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/2013\/01\/survey-retirement-medical-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Retirement, Medical Costs Concern Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some meaty survey goodness from late last year:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article\">Harris Interactive: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrisinteractive.com\/NewsRoom\/HarrisPolls\/tabid\/447\/mid\/1508\/articleId\/1107\/ctl\/ReadCustom%20Default\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Americans Worry About Retirement, Health Care<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to this Harris poll from late 2012, 74 percent of not-yet-retired folks are worried about having enough money to retire (I worry along with them, by the way), and 71 percent of us worry about being able to afford health-care expenses. <\/p>\n<p>To which I say: What&#8217;s the problem? ObamaCare solved all this! Duh! [\/sarcasm]<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also noteworthy that 47 percent of respondents said they live paycheck-to-paycheck, and thus are wholly unable to save. Of age group 18 to 47, 53 percent said that paycheck-to-paycheck was a way of life.  (This data suggests an economic situation that&#8217;s a bit worse than that reported by CareerBuilder, whose 2011 survey found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/2011\/08\/careerbuilder-42-live-paycheck-to-paycheck\/\">42 percent<\/a> considered themselves to be living paycheck-to-paycheck.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some meaty survey goodness from late last year: Harris Interactive: Americans Worry About Retirement, Health Care According to this Harris poll from late 2012, 74 percent of not-yet-retired folks are worried about having enough money to retire (I worry along with them, by the way), and 71 percent of us worry about being able to 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