Josh Scandlen Podcast

More Americans are worried about health care costs in retirement than about running out of money. How does that make any sense? Nassim Nicholas Taleb in one of his books talks about more people thinks it's more likely that an earthquake in California will kill 3000 people than a natural disaster anywhere in the US will kill 3000. The first is a subset of the second. The first can't exist without the second existing too! So, if you're worried about the first, you should be inherently more worried about the second. Same thing here. How can you be more worried about health care costs, which is a subset of retirement planning, than you are about running out of money? Yet here we are. Why? Because we keep hearing how expensive health care is in retirement. We're all going to die!!! We need health insurance and we need it now!!! We've been told for years taht we're only one paycheck away from being homeless. That we could all go bankrupt in retirement. That we'll all eat catfood alone in our last few y