Recent content by drunarayan

My healing thoughts I am so sorry this happened to your wife. It must have been very hard to take. I speak with similar experience here. It turned outlives upside down, simply all plan we had made went out the window. We are on the flip side of treatment and life is returning to normal. I...

58yo. 147lb 5’11” steady for at least 15 years. 58yo. Male. 147lb 5’11” steady for at least 15 years. Nice job moemg!

In my 20's I was 150 lb At 58 I am 145 lb I am 6' I have been a cyclist all of my life.

SS could become depleted by 2035! I saw this press release from the SSA today with this ominous statement - "The Social Security Board of Trustees today released its annual report on the long-term financial status of the Social Security Trust Funds. The combined asset reserves of the Old-Age...

This press release from today from the SSA says that Social Security would be insolvent by 2035 if no action is taken !!!! https://www.ssa.gov/news/press/releases/2019/#4-2019-1 I plan on taking one at 62 if this is the case. Something at 62 is better than -zero- at 70.

It almost worked out for Royal Tennenbaum !! One good thing about this post - I'm going to watch this movie again tonight!

Stay even into Retirement .....

58 YO, Male, 5'11" 147#, Runner, Cyclist

Thank you all. Clearly there was a problem with the calculator in my original link. The Kaiser calculator yields believable results. With the subsidy in this example, one ends up paying about 10% of a "silver" plan for husband-wife, no kids in WA as long as the income is at or below $65K...

I am looking at early retirement and see that there is a Health Insurance Subsidy in my state of WA. Has anyone used this subsidy? How is it working in practice? I have included a calculator below. The subsidy amounts are hard to believe. If you enter less than $65K for income in WA for a...