President Obama made halting the growth of income inequality a key part of his State of the Union message, and while financial planners and advisers can do little to fix the drivers of the problem, they can take steps to ameliorate its effects at the margin.
Just as advisers have to become experts in learning the best Social Security claiming strategies, they need to learn how Medicare and tax rules could affect their clients' bottom line in retirement.
It's a tough discussion that's not going away. It's only going to get tougher.
