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Special Report - The Retirement Industry - October 11, 2012
Up to quarter of seniors may exhaust assets on health bills
In final five years, those on Medicare spend tens of thousands of dollars

Newswise

As many as a quarter of Medicare recipients spend more than the total value of their assets on out-of-pocket health care expenses during the last five years of their lives, say researchers at New York-based Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

In addition, they found that 43 percent of Medicare recipients spend more than their total assets minus the value of their primary residences. The findings appear online in a recent issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

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