Health Populi August 13, 2024
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

The average person in the U.S. retiring in 2024 will need to bank $165,000 to pay for health care costs in retirement — a sum that does not include long-term care, Fidelity Investments advises us in the 23rd annual look at this always-impactful (and sobering) forecast.

I’ve covered this study every year since 2011 here in Health Populi, continuing to add to this bar chart; in the interest of space and legibility, I started this year’s version of the chart at 2014, when the cost for a couple was gauged at $220K.

Fidelity began to disaggregate the cost for a couple into the cost for a single average person, beginning in 2023 — when the individual’s health care costs in...

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