Medicare Marketplaces: A solution for reducing retiree health care costs, hiding in plain sight
Retirement without health care coverage is not secure. Indeed, lack of retiree health care coverage is often cited as a reason for not retiring. Yet the number of employers providing retiree health care continues to decline…
Tighter Municipal Budgets Shrink Retiree Health Benefits
America’s retired workers are getting squeezed on their health care. Cities and states can’t afford to keep the same medical benefits they promised government retirees. For all 50 states combined, revenue declines for 2020 and 2021 could reach…
How One City Contained Retiree Health Care Costs
Public sector organizations have struggled for decades to manage growing economic burdens related to other postemployment benefits (OPEB) liabilities. Drastically cutting retiree health care benefits has been a common response.