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Introduction: Surviving Health Costs to Retire: Health (and Retirement) Savings Accounts
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Section One: HSA becomes HRSA

Section One: Health Savings Accounts Expand to Health and Retirement Savings Funds.

As presently written, the law provides that HSAs turn into IRAs when Medicare coverage begins.

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Basic thesis:

Money at 7% compound interest, doubles itself in ten years.

Money at 10% compound interest. doubles itself in seven years.

Consequence: Money at 7% multiplies itself 512 times in ninety years.

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Originally published: Thursday, May 05, 2016; most-recently modified: Wednesday, June 05, 2019