There's nothing like worrying about healthcare, especially how you'll pay for it in retirement. 

That's the concern of more than 62 percent of boomers who have not yet retired, and who say they are "terrified" about the costs of healthcare destroying their retirement or making it altogether impossible. 

So says a survey from the Nationwide Retirement Institute, which found that those worried boomers — all affluent, by the way, with at least $150,000 in household income — not only fear the effects of out-of-control healthcare costs on their potential retirement, but are also convinced that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will be of no help to them. 

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