Retirement Illustrated #22: Protect Your Retirement With Healthy Insurance

DECEMBER 2025

In Chapter #22 of Retirement Illustrated, we discuss strategies for protecting your retirement and finances with health insurance. This chapter focuses on the period before you're eligible for Medicare at age 65, when health insurance that you buy on your own can be quite expensive.

Retirement Illustrated focuses on the most important decisions and strategies that people transitioning into their retirement years and living the rest of their lives need to consider and potentially implement. Our visual treatment of these topics keeps things simple to help you understand and remember these key issues. You can learn more about these topics by reading the links at the bottom of the newsletter.

PS I'm still publishing my quarterly newsletter that offers retirement insights and information in conventionally written text.

LINKS TO MORE INFORMATION ON KEY TOPICS AND IDEAS

Affordable Health Insurance Can Be a Deal-Breaker for Early Retirement

Health Insurance Saved These Early Retirees More Than $200,000

If you want to learn even more, I published a book on holistic retirement strategies that discussed this topic.

Retirement Game-Changers: Strategies for a Healthy, Financially Secure, and Fulfilling Long Life

Visit the Retirement Illustrated website to see previously published chapters.

Thanks for your interest, and stay tuned for future newsletters that explore how to best live the rest of your life.

Best regards,

Steve Vernon, FSA

President, Rest-of-Life Communications®

P.S. If you think this newsletter will help a friend, please pass it along.

ABOUT STEVE

I'm an actuary who spent 30+ years helping Fortune 500 employers design and manage their retirement plans. Now I help pre-retirees and retirees plan for retirement with my books, online columns, and retirement planning workshops.

I use extensive research I've conducted at the Stanford Center on Longevity on retirement income strategies and how people make key financial decisions. My wife and I are in our early 70s, so we're living the strategies that we share through our company, Rest-of-Life Communications.

I sincerely hope you can use Retirement Illustrated to help you be financially secure, healthy, and fulfilled during your retirement years.

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