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Average Cost of Retirement Health Insurance for Ages 62 – 65

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The Affordable Care Act empowers health insurance companies to incorporate age when calculating premiums.

The law caps age-based premium increases based on age.

Insurance companies can only charge a 64-year-old up to three times as much for a given plan.

Insurance costs can take a big bite out of retirement income.

Federal rules permit insurers to charge retirement-age Americans up to triple the rates paid by 21-year-olds .

Early retiree purchasing coverage under a benchmark plan through an ACA exchange might have to pay approximately $1,100 or more a month for health insurance.

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