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I wrote my first book about retirement during the Great Recession of 2008 - 2010, when millions of older Americans found themselves out of work and without health insurance. When I drafted a section on how older people needing health insurance but were too young to enroll in Medicare, about the best answer I could find was this: “good luck.”
This was bef…