Ready For Retirement

“The Biggest Retirement Lie: ‘I Can’t Retire Until Medicare’”


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“I can’t retire until Medicare.”
It sounds responsible. It sounds practical. It also keeps a lot of people working years longer than they need to. 

The truth is not that health insurance doesn’t matter. It absolutely does. The mistake is believing your employer is the only safe way to get it. That belief quietly trades some of your best years for a sense of certainty that may not actually be required.

In this episode, James walks through a real case study of a couple in their late fifties who had the assets, the plan, and the desire to retire, but felt trapped by healthcare fear. When health insurance is treated like a gatekeeper, it stops retirement cold. When it is treated like an expense, something shifts.

Even after accounting for significant premiums before age 65, the plan still worked. The real cost was never the insurance. It was the six to seven years of freedom they were prepared to give up during their healthiest and most energetic phase of life.

Medicare is not permission to retire. A coordinated plan is. When healthcare is integrated into your strategy, retirement stops being about age and starts being about choice.

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Ready For RetirementBy James Conole, CFP®

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