Aug 12 2012
The AARP found that health expenses ranked fourth on the list of concerns.
Los Angeles Times: High Anxiety: Half Of Baby Boomers Doubt They Will Ever Retire
Worries about health care, inflation, taxes, nest eggs and more have boomers scoring a 70% on AARP's anxiety index, compared to 59% of younger voters and 46% of people ages 65 or older (Hsu, 8/9).
Kaiser Health News: Capsules: Survey: Baby Boomers Worry About Medicare's Future, Want More Detail From Candidates
The organization asked registered voters, including an oversample of people age 50-plus, about their five top financial concerns to measure what they call an 'Anxiety Index.' Health expenses ranked fourth on the list of concerns after rising prices, taxes and financial security in retirement (Rao, 8/9).
 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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