Thursday, September 5, 2013

September is Life Insurance Awareness Month

Are you ready financially?

Fifty percent of the US population accounts for just 2.7% of all health-care expenditures, while 5% accounts for 49.5% of all health-care expenditures, according to Kaiser Family Foundation.

The life expectancy at birth of an average American was 62.9 years in 1940, five years after Social Security was created. Life expectancy today is 78.7 years (source: Center for Disease Control). As a result of this increased life expectancy, it will take $293,000 to pay for post retirement health care that’s not paid by Medicare, according to Kaiser. Are you financially prepared for this?

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